SUCH A LANDSCAPE! A NARRATIVE OF THE 1864 CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY EXPLORATION OF YOSEMITE, SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON, FROM THE DIARY, FIELD NOTES, LETTERS AND REPORTS OF WILLIAM HENRY BREWER. Introduction, notes and photographs by William Alsup. California, 1987, 1st edition. 121 pp, 39 plates. Tracing the original route of the 1864 California Survey with a view camera, and using original and unpublished diaries of William Brewer, Alsup has created a word and picture image as the Sierra must have looked to its first white travellers 140 years ago. A magnificent book, in a limited Fine Press linen spine binding. Fine.
