Walking
with Muir across Yosemite
Thomas
R. Vale and Geraldine R. Vale
"A celebration of the nature
experience.
This book expresses John Muir' emotional attachment
to America's oldest national park."
—Lary
M. Dilsaver, University of South Alabama
Does today's visitor trekking Yosemite National Park find it much different from what John Muir encountered
a century ago? Thomas and Geraldine Vale retrace Muir's path,
based upon journal descriptions of his activities and experiences
during his first summer in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. From
the foothills through Yosemite Valley and on up to the Tuolumne
Meadows, the Vales follow the present roads and trails that crossed
Muir's route, imagining his reaction to the landscape while reflecting
on the natural world in both his time and ours.
Illustrated
with drawings by John Muir and drawings and photos by the Vales, Walking with Muir across Yosemite emphasizes that current
visitors to Yosemite—indeed to any national park—can
still experience the solitude, wildness, and romanticism of nature.
They believe, however, that this modern exploration would benefit
from a national parks policy that actively promotes nature study
and encourages a more profound interaction between humans and
the natural world.
Thomas R.
Vale is professor of geography at the UW-Madison. He received his
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Geraldine R. Vale is a freelance writer and public
school teacher. They are the coauthors of U.S. Forty Today:
Thirty Years of Landscape Change in America. Thomas Vale is co-editor,
with Robert Ostergren, of Wisconsin Land and Life, also
published by the Press.
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April 1998
160 pp. 6 x 9
42 b/w photos,
17 drawings
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