The first illustrated history of the Sierra Club, this stunning volume celebrates America's foremost environmental organization on its 100th birthday. Breathtaking images by America's leading nature photographers depict the national parks, forests, and wildernesses, while a lively text tells the saga of the Club's century-long struggle to preserve the country's national heritage. 300 illustrations, 150 in full color. 2 maps. This coffee-table book details, in text and photographs, the history of one of America's oldest conservation groups. Founded in 1892, one of the Sierra Club's first efforts was to protect the recently created Yosemite National Park from lumbering and mining interests who sought to reduce its size. It has waged many similar battles in the years since, winning some and losing others. Nearly 300 photographs from some of the world's foremost nature photographers, including Ansel Adams and Philip Hyde, make this volume a remarkable chronicle of the environmental movement. To see only the photography, however, is to miss Turner's competent narrative, which recounts not only the successes but also the mistakes. This is an honest, enjoyable work, suitable for most collections. -Randy Dykhuis, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.