The young John Muir : an environmental biography
As founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movement, John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. But how did Muir's own relationship with nature begin? In this pioneering book, Steven J. Holmes offers a dramatically new interpretation of Muir's formative years, one that reveals the agony as well as the elation of his earliest experiences of nature
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, ©1999
Biography
xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780299161507, 9780299161545, 0299161501, 0299161544
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Introduction: Reimagining Muir, Remapping Biography
1. Fostered Alike by Beauty and by Fear: Scotland and Wisconsin, 1838-1856
2. Adrift on This Big Sinny World: Wisconsin, 1856-1863
3. Where Many a Moss & Fern Find Home: Canada West, Indiana, and Wisconsin, 1863-1867
4. Strange Plants of a Strange Kingdom: The South, 1867-68
5. These Pure Mansions of Crystal Foam & Purple Granite: California, 1868-1872
Conclusion: The Bonds That Open Our Hearts to the World
Appendix A. The Journal of the "First Summer"
Appendix B. The Journal of the Southern Walk
Appendix C. Theoretical Frameworks for Environmental Biography: Toward an Object Relations Approach
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