YELVERTON THERESE - Zanita: A Tale Of The Yo-Semite

Berkeley, Ten Speed Press. 1991, Reprint. (ISBN: 0898154103) Paperback. 209 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Here is an important novel of the 19th century brought back into print for both its historical significance and for the sheer splendour of its story. Zanita portrays the relationship between a young naturalist 'Kenmuir' and a lovely Victorian adventuress-a thinly-veiled fiction of the real-life relationship between John Muir and the Countess of Avonmore. Fine/None Issued.