Sierra Club Books

ForewordMemo to the Mountain Liono,'nee, in every corner of this continent, your passing could prickle the stillness and bring every living thing to the alert. But even then you were more felt than seen. You were an imminence, a presence, a crying in the night, pug tracks in the dust of a trail....

INTRODUCTION When we hear the words "wild cats, " our minds fill with images of exotic beasts in faraway places, A pride of lions sprawled in the dusty heat of the African plains. A tiger rippling through the damp green shade of a tropical rainforest. But there are other wild cats that live much...

PrefaceAs the smoke from many motors fills the air and hides the view from the patio - and water from the faucet becomes a mixture devised by the chemical industry increasing numbers of urban dwellers are seeking in the mountains and deserts the space, clean air and clean water denied them at...

INIRODUCIION iY Paul Schullekv OR THE LOVE OF BEARS Today the bear is an abstraction for most of us, wliicli is reason enougli to present a collection of stories like Mark of the Bear. Tliese stories are written by people who have taken bears personally, people who have spent enough time in...

Agréât traveler, Galen Rowell is also a generous one. He returns from the world's far edges with splendid gifts—frames of film saturated with light and color, faraway places and high adventure. Like the 18th century sketch-artists who accompanied Captain Cook to the South Sea islands, he...

Note to the reader My impression of books in the backpacking field is that they are insufiFerably bossy. Walking Softly in the Wilderness cannot be entirely an exception, for no book of manageable length and decent clarity can explore all the possible choices in wilderness gear and methods....