The Silverado Squatters - 9781974538546
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9781974538546
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The scene of this little book is on a high mountain. There are, indeed, many higher; there are many of a nobler outline. It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a center of interest. It is the Mont Blanc of one section of the Californian Coast Range, none of its near neighbors rising to one-half its altitude. It looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring-time many splashing brooks. From its summit you must have an excellent lesson of geography: seeing, to the south, San Francisco Bay, with Tamalpais on the one hand and Monte Diablo on the other; to the west and thirty miles away, the open ocean; eastward, across the corn-lands and thick tule swamps of Sacramento Valley, to where the Central Pacific railroad begins to climb the sides of the Sierras; and northward, for what I know, the white head of Shasta looking down on Oregon. . . .
- | Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 88 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1974538540
- | ISBN-13: 9781974538546
- Author:
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Publisher:
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Aug 15, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 88 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1974538540
- ISBN-13:
- 9781974538546