Yosemite Meditations for Adventurers
The spirit of adventure is alive and well in Yosemite — all one needs to do is walk off and find it. But "adventure" need not mean scaling The Nose of El Capitan. The vast park is simply an adventurous place, with something for everyone. This pocket companion, brimming with Michael Frye's lush photographs paired with inspired quotes, captures the adventurous essence of Yosemite and the sense that something wonderful is waiting just over there. With a foreword by the legendary Royal Robbins, the book features writers, thinkers, and bona fide adventurers, including:
John Muir
Sir Edmund Hillary
Susan Sontag
Galen Rowell
Bill Bryson
Lynn Hill
Ron Kauk
Walt Whitman
Edward Abbey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Cheryl Strayed
Enid Michael
Renny Russell
Sharon Giacomazzi
Mark Jenkins
Lillian Smith
Pearl S. Buck
Terry Tempest Williams
Alex Lowe
R. Mark Liebenow
Peter Croft
Diane Arbus
T.S. Eliot
Richard Hovey
Wendell Berry
Helen Keller
Norman Clyde
Yvon Chouinard
Scot Miller
Howard Thurman
Robert Browning
Lito Tejada-Flores
Corita Kent
Joseph Campbell
Sigurd F. Olson
Frosty Wooldridge
Michael Frye is a professional photographer specializing in landscapes and nature and has contributed to books about Yosemite as well as articles about photography in publications worldwide. He lived in Yosemite National Park for many years and maintains his photography studio in nearby Mariposa, CA. Claudia Welsh lived in Yosemite for 25 years, spending most of that time as a buyer and manager of the Ansel Adams Gallery. Welsh still lives near the park, in Mariposa, CA, where she works with her husband, photographer Michael Frye.
