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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella L Bird
I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way! A strictly North American beauty-snow- splotched mountains, huge pines, red -woods, sugar pines, silver spruce; a crystalline atmosphere, waves of the richest color; and a pine-hung lake which mirrors all beauty on its surface. Lake Tahoe is before me, a sheet of water twenty-two miles long by ten broad, and in some places 1,700 feet deep. It lies at a height of 6,000 feet, and the snow-crowned summits which wall it in are from 8,000 to 11,000 feet in altitude. The air is keen and elastic. There is ....
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 6, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9781697870572 |
| Pages | 230 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 279 × 12 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |
