The young John Muir : an environmental biography / Steven J. Holmes.

Author
Holmes, Steven J. (Steven Jon), 1960- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1999.
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xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    • 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.
    • From his childhood in Scotland and Wisconsin through his young adulthood in the Midwest and Canada, Muir struggled -- often without success -- to find a place for himself both in nature and in society. Far from granting comfort, the natural world confronted the young Muir with a full range of practical, emotional, and religious conflicts. Only with the help of his family, his religion, and the extraordinary power of nature itself could Muir in his late twenties find a welcoming vision of nature as home -- a vision that would shape his lifelong environmental experience, most immediately in his transformative travels through the South and to the Yosemite Valley.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297) and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 0299161501 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780299161507 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0299161544 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780299161545 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    98044888
    OCLC
    40076592
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