Sierra Nevada by Johnston, Verna

Sierra Nevada by Johnston, Verna Houghton Mifflin, 1970, stated lst. Hardback in good condition, NO dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cloth cover is clean, owners embossed seal inside cover. This is the second in a series intended to inform the public about the wildlife, plants and geology of the continent. In the Sierra's everything is big. The world's biggest trees, many of America's highest waterfalls, monolithic rocks. Though the Sierras are a fairly young in age as mountain range they are on the "hinge" of the great California plates sloping to the west and dropping sharply to the east. Loaded with B&W photos and illustrations, maps, notes, references, appendix, index 281 pages.