Sierra Club

Overview

Works:	2,250 works in 3,175 publications in 2 languages and 66,240 library holdings
Genres:	Pictorial works Illustrated works Periodicals History Quotations Guidebooks Exhibition catalogs Portraits Handbooks and manuals Maps
Roles:	Publisher, Other, Editor, Contributor, Book producer, Recipient
Classifications:	F868.S5, 910.5

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Sierra Club

In the thick of it : my life in the Sierra Club by J. Michael McCloskey( )
The rebirth of environmentalism : grassroots activism from the spotted owl to the polar bear by Douglas Bevington( )
The man who built the Sierra Club : a life of David Brower by Bob Wyss( )
David Brower : the making of the environmental movement by Tom Turner( )
John Muir and the Sierra Club; the battle for Yosemite by Holway R Jones( Book )

Shee Atika, Inc. : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on an inquiry into the affairs of Shee Atika, Inc., November 2 and 3, 1983, Washington, D.C by United States( Book )
Still the wild river runs : Congress, the Sierra Club, and the fight to save Grand Canyon by Byron E Pearson( Book )
Muir of the mountains by William O Douglas( Book )
The national parks. America's best idea( Visual )
Saving Grand Canyon : dams, deals, and a noble myth by Byron E Pearson( Book )
Monumental : David Brower's fight for wild America( Visual )
The political practice of environmental organizations by Ulf Hjelmar( Book )
Water and the Dream of the Engineers( Visual )
The Sierra Club : a guide by Sierra Club( Book )
The Sierra Club, a handbook by Sierra Club( Book )
Environmental impact statement and federal budget preparation : Andrus v. Sierra Culb by Robert Meltz( Book )
Murder on the prairie : a north Florida mystery by M. D Abrams( Book )
Sierra Club women( )
Environmental activist, publicist, and prophet by David Brower( Book )
Executive director of the Sierra Club, 1987-1992 : by Michael L Fischer( )

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Most widely held works by Sierra Club

Sierra by Sierra Club( )

in English and held by 3,386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Walking softly in the wilderness : the Sierra Club guide to backpacking by John Hart( Book )

21 editions published between 1976 and 2005 in English and held by 1,741 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A guide to gearing up and putting together a backpacking trip, traveling and making camp, camping with kids, winter camping, kinds of wilderness, and wilderness management plans

In wildness is the preservation of the world, from Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau( Book )

13 editions published between 1962 and 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Photos of Nature's moods with selections from Thoreau's work

Ecotactics : the Sierra Club handbook for environmental activists by John G Mitchell( Book )

11 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 1,131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the American earth by Ansel Adams( Book )

4 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 1,129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Photographs by Ansel Adams and 31 others, with text by Nancy Newhall and foreword by David Brower, executive director of Sierra Club

The place no one knew : Glen Canyon on the Colorado by Eliot Porter( Book )

12 editions published between 1963 and 1968 in English and held by 897 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Glen Canyon happens only once; there is no scenic climax anywhere that can quite approach it. Prehistoric Indian sites have been salvaged

Gentle wilderness; the Sierra Nevada by John Muir( Book )

10 editions published between 1964 and 1976 in English and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Almost ancestors : the first Californians by Theodora Kroeber( Book )

6 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Galapagos : the flow of wildness by Eliot Porter( Book )

10 editions published between 1968 and 1970 in English and held by 841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Color photographs and text investigate the scientific and poetic virtues of the Galapagos Islands and describe the need for their conservation as genetic reservoirs for future discovery. For contents and other editions, see Title Catalog

Sierra Club : 100 years of protecting nature by Tom Turner( Book )

4 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 823 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is a fitting centenary celebration of the Sierra Club, founded in 1892 by 27 Californians whose interest lay in wilderness recreation and the protection of the state's mountains. Today the club has 650,000 members concerned about environmental matters worldwide. Tom Turner of the club's legal defense fund gives a lively history of the organization and its ongoing struggle to preserve America's natural heritage. He recalls John Muir, David Brower, the Wilderness Act of 1964, and confrontations with James Watt and the Reagan Administration. The text is accompanied by works of major photographers, such as Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Galen Rowell, and Kathleen Norris Cook. ISBN 0-8109-3820-0: $49.50

History of the Sierra Nevada by Francis P Farquhar( Book )

5 editions published between 1965 and 1966 in English and held by 796 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Panorama of human experiences in California's "great snowy range", including the Yosemite, Mt. Whitney, and Lake Tahoe areas, from its sighting by Spaniards to the present

The water hustlers by Robert H Boyle( Book )

2 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Not man apart : lines from Robinson Jeffers ; photographs of the Big Sur coast by Ansel Adams [and others] by David Brower( Book )

9 editions published between 1965 and 1976 in English and held by 723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Land navigation handbook : the Sierra Club guide to map and compass by W. S Kals( Book )

3 editions published between 1983 and 2005 in English and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Explains how to use a compass and a topographic map to stay on course and measure distances while hiking in wilderness areas

Sierra Club guides to the national parks of the desert Southwest by Conger Beasley( Book )

7 editions published between 1984 and 1996 in English and held by 689 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Arches, Big Bend, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, Mese Verde, Petrified Forest, Zion

Summer island : Penobscot country by Eliot Porter( Book )

10 editions published between 1966 and 1976 in English and held by 666 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Baja California and the geography of hope by Joseph Wood Krutch( Book )

4 editions published between 1967 and 1969 in English and held by 627 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Everglades by Patricia Caulfield( Book )

6 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and held by 624 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Navajo wildlands; "as long as the rivers shall run." by Stephen C Jett( Book )

3 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Celebrates the natural wonders of the Arizona and New Mexico wilderness encompassed by the Navajo Indian reservation, in a volume containing numerous color photographs and excerpts from noted authors and Navajo creation myths and chants

The Sierra Club guides to the national parks of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains by Conger Beasley( Book )

10 editions published between 1984 and 1996 in English and held by 607 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Badlands, glacier, Grand Teton, Rocky Nountain, Theodore Roosevelt, Wind cave, Yellowstone

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