The High Sierra : a love story / Kim Stanley Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Kim Stanley, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robinson, Kim Stanley--Travel--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).

Robinson, Kim Stanley.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Description and travel.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--History.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Historical geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown, 2022.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Robinson, Kim Stanley. High Sierra : A Love Story.

ISBN:

9780316306812

0316306819

Publisher Number:

40031155564

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.