Wild Yosemite: 25 Tales of Adventure, Nature, and Exploration

Yosemite is one of this country's most beautiful sites, and is simply awe-inspiring. This collection of musings about the great park is an impressive read. Not only do you get a collection of writing on Yosemite, you get some of history's best writer's talking about it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Mark Twain are just a few of the brilliant mind's talking about their love for this wonderful place. If you are lover of nature, or simply brilliant prose, do yourself a favor and pick this up

Living in the Mother Lode here in the beautiful Sierras I fell in love with this book the moment it hit my hands. Had just come from Sonora east of where I live and stopped on Jack Ass Hill and looked at Mark Twains small one room cabin. A place that I actually would have moved into as a squatter had I ever been able to. And this book will tell you why he and so many others loved the area the moment they came here. And so many of the black and white photos that are at the top of each new chapter reminded me of the ones my late friend Ansel Adams had taken. Even if you never come here to visit this area please read the book and get a glimpse of why we and those like Mark Twain, John Muir Teddy Roosevelt and others loved the place so much.

This book provides great reading of descriptions of the glory, beauty, jopys and tribulations of Yosemite explorers and travelers over the years. It is must reading for anyone with an interest in the park.

This is a wonderful collection of early writings about Yosemite, something that surely took lots of digging through lots of old books to come up with. Here they are, arranged nicely for reading straight through, or dipping into from time to time. As a Yosemite lover, I'm always amazed at how little things have changed in the park since those times when described by the first visitors. Neider's collection is thoughtfully assembled to showcase the best available Yosemite literature, and she has provided a valuable service with her "Editor's Notes" that translate into modern language some of the archaic terms and references so that the reader can more easily understand this magnificent park. Her artwork provides a useful companion to the text. This excellent anthology should be required reading for all visitors to Yosemite.