Outdoors Library: The height of beauty

Tim Palmer's book "Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California" (Heyday Books, $19.95, 176 pages) is a love letter to his beloved mountain range. His prose is passionate, his photography exhilarating.

"On that first trip to the Sierra, I wanted to see it all, and now, thirty-eight years later, I still do," he coos.

"Back then, I couldn't get enough, and now, half a lifetime later, I still can't."

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