PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The Mountains of California,
John Muir's first book, was published in New York in 1894, by The Century
Company. It is included in this complete edition of his works by their
permission, and to it are added nine chapters of his later book The
Yosemite, also by arrangement with The Century Company. Six of the fifteen
chapters of The Yosemite, being repeated virtually word for word from the
earlier book or from Our National Parks, are omitted. The careful reader of
these volumes will still find here and there a sentence or even a paragraph
duplicated, but he will perceive that this duplication could not have been
avoided without mutilating the author's text. The duplication in the books
as originally published was natural and; indeed, practically unavoidable,
the three volumes having been written to serve different purposes and each
needing to be complete in itself.
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