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The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known preservationist John Muir, who became its first president. The Sierra Club has hundreds of thousands of members in chapters located throughout the United States, and is affiliated with Sierra Club of/du Canada. "The first illustrated history of the Sierra Club, this stunning volume celebrates America's foremost enviromental organization on its 100th birthday" -from book. "Discovering how the followers of beloved 19th-century naturalist writer John Muir have fulfilled his club's mission, "to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of this Earth," makes for an exhilarating journey from Yosemite Valley to Alaska, from Penobscot Bay to the Everglades. Three hundred breathtaking images by America's finest nature photographers present the landscapes saved by the Sierra Club's grassroots activism, while a lively text tells the saga of the Club's century-long, continuing struggle to preserve America's natural heritage." The photographers of the many wonderful photos in this book include: Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde, David R. Brower, Carr Clifton, M. Frank Strauss, Anon, Ed Cooper, Cedric Wright, Galen Rowell, John Dyer, Joseph N. LeConte, Edward T. Parsons, George R. King, Herbert W. Gleason, J. Edward B. Greene, Eadweard Muybridge, Kathleen Norris Cook, Ruben Ruiz, Martin Litton, Morley Baer, Art Wolfe, Robert Glenn Ketchum, John Ward, Ted Schiffman, Peter Arnold, Charlie Ott, J.F. Morse, Frank LaRoche, David Muench, W.A. Jackson, Rick Bradley, Roxanne Kjarum, and many, many more!!! Includes never before published photographs from Sierra Club archives depicting climbers, trekkers, National Park scenes, and camp life of the Club's early days. Maps, memorabilia and cartoons included.Read full review
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