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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



_ A new book by Fanny Bullock Work- 



Peaks and Glaciers ^.^^.^^ ^ Workman, mem- 



OF Nun Kun. ^^^^ American Alpine Club and 



the Appalachian Mountain Club, is called "Peaks and Glaciers of 

 Nun Kun."* 



The book is a record of mountaineering and pioneer exploration 

 in the Punjab Himalya, and also gives the account of Mrs. Work- 

 man's ascent of Pinnacle Peak, 23,000 feet, which is the record 

 ascent for women. The descriptions of the Nun Kun group of 

 mountains, unknown before this to mountain-climbers, the account 

 of the peculiar difficulties encountered in the ascent, not only 

 from snow and ice and rocks, but also in handling the native 

 porters, makes a most interesting and, at times, thrilling story. 



The book contains a map and ninety-two superbly reproduced 

 illustrations taken from photographs and showing remarkably 

 beautiful and interesting views of the peaks, glaciers, and valleys 

 explored. 



This is a book that has long been needed 

 HE REES OF ^j^^ trcc-loving people of California. 



California, t ^j.. Jepson is particularly qualified to 



write such a book, and has spent years of painstaking labor in its 

 preparation. He has treated a technical subject in a most enter- 

 taining manner, and the book is replete with splendid full-page 

 illustrations and smaller descriptive cuts. California has a reputa- 

 tion for "big things," but few of its own inhabitants are aware 

 that "the silva of California is remarkable for the number of 

 species peculiar to Cahfornia or which here attain their greatest 

 development," and that "California is most remarkable for its 

 development of coniferse, not only in number of species (which 

 exceeds any other equal area), but in size of the individual trees 

 and their forestral development. This statement is particularly 

 true of the true pines, of which we have seventeen species." The 

 book is intended not only for the practical forester and botanist, 

 but also for the amateur and those "who have opportunity to 

 take up special studies 6f our trees for the sake of intellectual 

 pleasure and cultivation." The book will prove an invaluable 

 companion to all who love our forests and mountains. W. E. C. 



In his latest book Professor Meany has 

 "History of the State j^^^ ^^^^^^ restricted scope of the 

 OF Washington. commentator for the wider field and 



broader outlook of the historian. His "History of the State of 



* Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun. Illustrated maps. $4.50 net. Charles 

 Scribner's Sons, New York, 1909. 



t The Trees of California. By Willis Linn Jepson. Cunningham, Curtiss 

 & Welch, San Francisco. $2.50. 



