The High Sierra 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....
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
