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Sierra Club Books
Parent companySierra Club
Founded1960 (1960)
FounderDavid Brower
DefunctMay 27, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-05-27)
Successor
  • Counterpoint LLC
    (Adult books)
  • Gibbs Smith
    (Children's books)
Country of originSierra Club Books United States
Headquarters locationSierra Club Books San Francisco
DistributionPublishers Group West
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsEnvironmentalism

Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of the Sierra Club, founded in 1960 by then club President David Brower. They were a United States publishing company located in San Francisco, California with a concentration on biological conservation. In 2014 the adult division of the organization was sold to Counterpoint LLC and the children's books division to Gibbs Smith.

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Sierra Club Books

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Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of the Sierra Club, founded in 1960 by then club President David Brower....

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Sierra Club

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The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The club was founded...

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Half Dome

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USA: Sierra Club Books. p. 178. ISBN 9780871560483. Roper, Steve (1971). A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley. San Francisco, USA: Sierra Club Books. pp...

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Ice axe

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Gods. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. pp. 36–40. ISBN 0-87156-184-0. Viesturs, Ed (2006). No Shortcuts to the Top. Broadway Books. ISBN 9780767924702...

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Piton

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Learning to Rock Climb. Sierra Club Books. p. 78. ISBN 0-87156-281-2. Loughman, Michael (1981). Learning to Rock Climb. Sierra Club Books. p. 80. ISBN 0-87156-281-2...

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Oscar Eckenstein

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Galen (1977). In The Throne Room of the Mountain Gods. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. pp. 36. ISBN 978-0-87156-184-8. Sybil Oldfield, 'Eckenstein, Lina...

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High Sierra Trail

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(1977). Starr's Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region. Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-172-7. USGS 7.5 minute maps through which the...

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The River Why

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Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Books of the American West. In 2002, Sierra Club Books released a 20th Anniversary Edition that includes...

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Chuck Pratt

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Sierra Club Books. pp. 282–287. ISBN 0-87156-292-8. Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra Club...

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Ecofeminism

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Ornstein, Gloria (eds.). Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Feminism. Sierra Club Books. pp. 3–14. Gaard, Greta and, Gruen, Lori (1993). "Ecofeminism: Toward...

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Mount Whitney

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2016-05-08. Whitney, Stephen (1979). A Sierra Club naturalist's guide to the Sierra Nevada. Sierra Club Books. p. 41. ISBN 0871562154. Archived from the...

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Annapurna

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Blum, Arlene (1980). Annapurna: A Woman's Place. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-236-7. Herzog, Maurice (1951). Annapurna: First Conquest...

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Potemkin village

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Corporate Ski Industry is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment. Sierra Club Books. pp. 106–110. ISBN 9781578050710. "Colorado Ski Areas – SKI BUM"....

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Tom Frost

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Chouinard, Yvon (1978). Climbing Ice. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books and the American Alpine Club. ISBN 978-0-87156-207-4. Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen...

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Dennis Stock

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France: Contrejour, 1980, ISBN 978-2-85949-027-0 Brother Sun, USA: Sierra Club Books, 1974 California: the Golden Coast, with Philip L. Fradkin, USA: Viking...

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Bamboo

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Rinehart and Winston. Farrelly, David (1984). The Book of Bamboo. Sierra Club Books. ISBN 978-0-87156-825-0. "Fastest growing plant". Guinness World Records...

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Carwalking

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(2003). Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation that Works. Sierra Club Books. ISBN 978-1-57805-091-8. "@pavements4ppl". Twitter. "Une affaire de...

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Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome

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WA: Mountaineers Books, 1998. ISBN 0-89886-587-5 Roper, Steve. Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1978. ISBN 0-87156-048-8...

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Kenneth Brower

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working as an editor for the Exhibit Format series, published by Sierra Club Books. He also was a contributing author and editor for The Earth's Wild...

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Peak bagging

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needed] Clubs are often formed to gather people who share an interest in bagging peaks on a list. Some clubs are specialized, such as the Sierra Peaks Section...

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The Klamath Knot

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California Press four decades after its original 1983 publication by Sierra Club Books (in collaboration with Yolla Bolly Press of Covelo, California), and...

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Galen Rowell

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career, and impact on the various worlds he touched was published by Sierra Club Books. From 1968, he used 35mm Nikon cameras and lenses almost exclusively...

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Sierra Nevada

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The Sierra Nevada (/siˌɛrə nɪˈvædə, -ˈvɑːd-/ see-ERR-ə niv-A(H)D-ə) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California...

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North Palisade

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The Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-555-7. Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club. Retrieved 2008-11-28...

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Fifty Classic Climbs of North America

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edition was published in 1979, by Sierra Club Books in the United States and in Great Britain by the now-defunct Diadem Books. This was followed by a paperback...

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Mount Logan

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(1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco, CA, USA: Sierra Club Books. pp. 179–182. ISBN 0-87156-292-8. Scott, Chic (2000). Pushing the...

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Derrick Jensen

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land: Conversations about nature, culture, and Eros. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-417-3. OCLC 31046167. Republished by Chelsea Green in...

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