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The high Sierra : a love story / Kim Stanley Robinson.

Summary:
"Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter trip a changed man, awed by a landscape that felt simultaneously like strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned to the mountains again and again over the course of his life -hundreds of trips-and has gathered a vast store of knowledge about this extraordinary place in the process. The High Sierra is his celebration of this exceptional place, a guide for those who love it and those who want to know it, -an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on our planet"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 031659301X
  • ISBN: 9780316593014
  • Physical Description: xvi, 537 pages : illustrations (some color), color photographs, color maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-479).
Formatted Contents Note:
My Sierra life (1): Not to touch the earth -- Geology (1): Batholith and Pluton -- My Sierra life (2): Break on through -- Sierra people (1): The first people -- My Sierra life (3): Artists in the back country -- Geology (2): Basins -- My Sierra life (4): How we met -- Sierra people (2): John Muir -- My Sierra life (5): the Pinball years -- Geology (3): Crests and divides; also Psychogeology (1): Outside and inside -- Snow camping (1): Freezing our butts -- Sierra people (3): Clarence King -- Names (1): the Good -- Snow camping (2): Close to the edge -- Moments of being (1): A Sierra day: Morning in camp -- My Sierra life (6): Crossing Mather Pass -- Sierra people (4): Mary Austin -- Psychogeology (2): Altitude and foreshortening -- Sierra people (5): Mapping the territory -- Geology (4): Fellfields -- Sierra people (6): Common neighbors -- Moments of being (2): A Sierra day: Rambling and scrambling -- My Sierra life (7): Owls in the blue -- Sierra people (7): The Sierra Club's women -- Sierra people (8): the Fresno crowd -- Routes (1): the Four bad passes -- Moments of being (3): A Sierra day: Sunset and twilight -- My Sierra life (8): Robbie you're wasting your precious youth -- The Swiss Alps (1): Kistenpass -- Snow Camping (3): the Transantarctics -- Sierra people (9): Norman Clyde -- Names (2): the Bad -- Routes (2): the Six good passes -- Geology (5): Canyons and massifs -- Moments of being (4): A Sierra day: Night in camp -- Routes (3) Some West-side entries -- My Sierra life (9) Gear talk -- The Swiss Alps (2): My ascent of the Matterhorn -- My Sierra Life (10): Return to the Sierra -- Moments of being (5): Close calls -- Routes (4): Desolation -- Moments of being (6): A Sierra day: Under the tarp -- My Sierra life (11): Heart trouble -- Names (3): the Ugly -- Sierra people (10): Tree line artists -- Geology (6): Roof pendants -- Sierra people (11): Fish and frogs -- My Sierra life (12): This is the end -- Sierra people (12): Reclusive neighbors -- Sierra people (13): the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep -- Sierra people (14): What didn't get built; and Trail phantoms -- Routes (5) Basins have characters -- Snow camping (4): Extreme housekeeping -- Sierra people (15): Gary Snyder -- Names (4): Naming Mount Thoreau -- Sierra people (16): Michael Blumlein -- Moments of being (7): Late desolation -- The Swiss Alps (3): Seeing Meru -- Routes (6): the High route -- Moments of being (8): the Monsoon gets stronger -- Moments of being (9): Hetch Hetchy restored -- Sierra people (17): Young people in love -- My Sierra life (13): Still getting lost -- Names (5): corrections and additions -- Sierra people (18): We had a good shaman -- Moments of being (10): How big the world becomes in a wind -- Moments of being (11): Have I mentioned how much I like the Fall colors up here? -- My Sierra life (14): For wilderness -- Moments of being (12): the Thicket.
Subject: Robinson, Kim Stanley > Travel > Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > Description and travel.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > History.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > Historical geography.

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  • 10 of 10 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 917.944 ROBINSO (Text) 50686016167863 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library 917.94 Rob (Text)
Memorial: In remembrance of Wayne Doyle by Debra J. Barker
00153592 ADULT Non-Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 917.944 ROBINSON (Text)
Memorial: This book is donated in memory of Harry E. Rood by Mary B. Walter
35740635846603 New Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 917.94 Robinson Nature (Text) 39427103655460 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Parkland Community Library 917.944 ROB (Text) 34422007252311 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Southern Lehigh Public Library 917.944 ROB (Text)
Bookplate: This item was purchased in honor of Stellar Advisor for a donation to the Southern Lehigh Public Library Helping Hands Campaign 2022-2023.
30044100888918 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Windber Public Library 917.944 Robinson (Text) 34950000563730 WINM Main Available -
Allentown Public Library 917.944 ROBI (Text) 34455006906297 Adult Nonfiction 1st FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 917.944 (Text) 33062009597080 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Western Pocono Community Library 917.944 Rob (Text) 31119000583402 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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