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Facing her first murder case under the skeptical eye of her overprotective police chief father, savvy Merry Folger tries to uncover the truth behind the death of Rusty Mason, who was discovered at his family home after a ten-year absence. Reprint. K.

Facing her first murder case under the skeptical eye of her overprotective police chief father, savvy Merry Folger tries to uncover the truth behind the death of Rusty Mason, who was discovered at his family home after a ten-year absence. Reprint. K.

My First Summer in the Sierra written by John Muir . John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. My First Summer in the Sierra: Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly critters toward the headwaters of the Merced River. John Muir: The diary he kept while tending sheep forms the heart of My First Summer in the Sierra; published in 1911, it enticed thousands of Americans to visit the Yosemite country. Sierra Summer is full of the concerns Muir would later voice as America's foremost preservationist and wildlands advocate, which would bear fruit in the creation of several national parks and monuments. And it resounds with Muir's nearly pantheistic regard for the natural world: with celebrations of the Sierra's lizards that "dart about on the hot rocks, swift as dragonflies," its mountain lions and tall trees and fierce thunderstorms and bears; with Muir's overarching awe for places that civilization had yet to tame. Though perhaps a little purple by modern standards, John Muir's book continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own--and as such it stands among the enduring classics of environmental literature. --Gregory McNamee -- My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir is highly recommended to read. "john muir" "my sierra" "john muir books" "my first summer in the sierra" "sierra summer" "the sierra" "who was john muir"