Williamsburg Regional Library

The High Sierra, a love story, Kim Stanley Robinson

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-479)

contains biographical information

illustrationsmaps

no index present

non fiction

The High Sierra

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Kim Stanley Robinson

a love story

"Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned to the mountains throughout his life--more than a hundred trips--and has gathered a vast store of knowledge about them. The High Sierra is his celebration of this exceptional range and an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth." --, Provided by publisherA "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).--, Amazon.com

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

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