[PDF.71ii] A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

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 | #186216 in Books |  imusti |  2011-05-06 |  2011-05-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x1.50 x9.20l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 544 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Great biography that puts Muir's life into historical perspective|By Harold W. Wood Jr.|This is a historical perspective of john Muir's life. As such, it is not quite as "readable" as some of the earlier biographies of Muir's life, which read much more like an adventure story, as in the case of the Pulitzer prize winning biography by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, which extols Muir's gre|From Publishers Weekly|Environmental writer and professor Worster (Dust Bowl, Nature's Economy) presents the inspiring story of John Muir, who rebelled against orthodoxy and became one of the founders of modern environmentalism. Born in 1838 in Scotland, Muir's

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing."

In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world....

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir   |  Donald Worster. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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