In the same vein as 18th-century horticulturist and explorer William Bartram’s “Travels,” portraying meanderings through the American Southeast, John Muir’s “The Yosemite” enables readers to experience through sensory imagery every jot and tittle of his wanderings in California’s Yosemite Valley.
It is part travelogue, as Muir provides some practical information about his journey. But it’s primarily a journal, expressing his appreciation for Yosemite via sentences dripping with descriptions.
