“A complete physical exposure of the range, from summit to base, lay before us. At one extreme stand sharpened peaks, white in fretwork of glistening ice-bank, or black where tower straight bolts of snowless rock; at the other stretch away plains smiling with a broad honest brown under autumn sunlight.”
First published in the 1860's, King writes of his pioneering and perilous adventures in the high Sierras while a member of the first party to make a geological survey in California.
Author: Clarence King
Title: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Edition: Reprint edition
Published: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1935
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 320p
Condition: Fair condition dust jacket with rubbing to surfaces, edge wear, heavy chipping, and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine very clean with edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding sturdy and square. Pages toned. Owner’s name on front end-paper.
Comments: Scarce copy with dust jacket
