From the dust jacket: “In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Yosemite National Park, acclaimed nature photographer Galen Rowell has assembled 101 of his superb full-color images of Yosemite and placed them alongside the complete text of John Muir’s classic The Yosemite recounting of the famed naturalist’s adventures amid Yosemite Valley’s breathtaking landscape at the end of the last century. The result is a powerful evocation of Yosemite’s lasting beauty and a testament to the importance of preserving the world’s most precious natural places.

Though Muir and Rowell explored Yosemite a century apart, both were inspired and transformed by the natural treasure they found there.