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FRANCOIS MATTHES AND THE MARKS OF TIME: YOSEMITE AND THE HIGH SIERRA. Fryxell 1962 1st edition DJ
By Fryxell, Fritiof, ed.
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San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1962, 1st edition. 189 pp, plates, ills. Well illustrated biography of the acclaimed geologist and Sierra Club member. DJ, Very Good or Fine.

“As an interpreter of the western scene,” Professor Fryxell writes, “Mattheswas without peer among contemporary American geologists.” And his workfascinated nongeologists, too. One wrote, of a friend and himself, “We have both carried Professional Paper 160 [about Yosemite] in our knapsacks when everyounce of weight was precious.”

Matthes first came to Yosemite in 1903. The first of his “Little Studies in the Sierra” appeared in the Sierra Club Bulletin in 1910, his last, in 1948. Others were drawn upon for his books; still others are first published here.

It is appropriate that Professor Fryxell, who has completed three of Matthes’ books on the Sierra Nevada posthumously, and who also traveled with Matthes on some of his explorations, should complete the present work and preface it with a beautifully and sympathetically presented biography of a very special kind of scientist.

It was the unique gift of François Matthes to make geology a living subject.A detective of the high-mountain wilderness and an artist in the way he presents his story, he gives nothing away prematurely, but asks the reader and himself questions: Could the range have formed because the mountain lifted or because the valley dropped? If the valley dropped, then should we not find two or three kinds of evidence? Lets go out and look.

After a certain amount of suspense, we find the evidence, and he lets us discover it for ourselves—again and again on field trips through these pages with Matthes. The man who is not a geologist to begin with ends the trip with the makings of a geologist in him—and he will love the transformation and his new appreciation of the old mountains he thought he knew.

Illustrated with many photographs by Ansel Adams and including photographs,sketches, diagrams, and topography by François Matthes. Designed by Mark Robertson.
 
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