Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada eBook CLARENCE KING
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Clarence Rivers King (1842-1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer, and author. He served as the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. King was noted for his exploration of the Sierra Nevada. King joined the California Geological Survey without pay, and worked with William H. Brewer, Josiah D. Whitney and later Gardiner and Richard D. Cotter. In July 1864, King and Cotter made the first ascent of a peak in the Eastern Sierra that King named Mount Tyndall in honor of one of his heroes. From there they discovered several higher peaks, including the one that came to be named Mount Whitney. In September 1864, upon the designation by President Abraham Lincoln of the Yosemite Valley area as a permanent public reserve, King and Gardiner were appointed to make a boundary survey around the rim of Yosemite Valley. Over the next six years King and his team explored areas from eastern California to Wyoming. During that time he also published his famous Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada eBook CLARENCE KING
I enjoyed King's first hand account of this exploration in the Sierra Nevada. It is only fitting that a mountain in Kings Canyon Park is named after him.His writing style is educated and informed. His adventures away from the mountains paint a portrait of a robust and courageous individual. HIs escape from the desperados following him to steal his money was quite an episode.Product details
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada eBook CLARENCE KING Reviews
a bit long but these guys were very good writers
Here is a book that combines science, adventure, and history in remarkably modern voice from 150 years ago.
Clarence King preceded Muir into High Sierras as a geologist, surveyor and cartographer. He ended up writing great tales of local characters, about his horse, barely surviving a blizzard on the rim on the Yosemite, mountain climbing and escaping bandits.
It is a personal history that should never have been forgotten.
Excellent book by an early explorer of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Clarence King knew how to write an interesting story. Very fun read.
Clarence King was a great mountaineer, but he gets a little wordy in this book. I was dissapointed with some of the content and entertained with some of the stories. Overall there are many better writings out there.
A wonderful personal account of exploring and surveying California as a member of Whitney's original survey team and later as a government surveyor of Yosemite National Park
A FASCINATING BOOK BY AN AMAZING MAN!
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is essential reading for anyone who both loves those mountains and wants to get a glimpse of life there before it reached the level of settlement it has today. Whether or not all the stories here are strictly factual, they are often both gripping and entertaining. Additionally, they bring the reader some sense of what rural central California life was like at that time.
Clarence King was a gifted wordsmith. His hilarious, politically incorrect descriptions of western characters are reminiscent of some of the best incisive commentary of Mark Twain. Then his descriptions of climbing in the mountains are so intense that you may even wince as you are carried along as he describes some of the most hair-raising brushes with death. Those who have been where King describes will certainly feel what King has written as they read along.
One reviewer, though entertained, seems to doubt what King says. I don't. Though there may be a little hyperbole in King's description of events, the reader should remember that at that time the average guy was far more physically fit than the average guy today. You had to be or you didn't make it, because every day in the wilderness was fraught with challenge and physical danger.
All in all, you could say that this book is a collection of bold tales well told. I particularly like the stories of his crossing the desert coming to California, of the hog farmers, of his escape from determined bandits, of his ultimate conquest of Mt Whitney, and of all the colorful characters he meets in his path both in the Sierras and at Shasta.
And though some might take him for a bigot because of some of his comments about the natives, remember that he saves the sharpest point of his pen for the most worthless characters of his own stock who abound in the California of his day. Whatever you think about what King has written, once you pick this up you'll find it hard to put down until you've finished the last paragraph.
I enjoyed King's first hand account of this exploration in the Sierra Nevada. It is only fitting that a mountain in Kings Canyon Park is named after him.His writing style is educated and informed. His adventures away from the mountains paint a portrait of a robust and courageous individual. HIs escape from the desperados following him to steal his money was quite an episode.
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