A passion for nature : the life of John Muir / Donald Worster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worster, Donald, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naturalists--United States--Biography.

Naturalists.

Conservationists--United States--Biography.

Conservationists.

Muir, John, 1838-1914.

Muir, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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. A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written.

Contents:

Contents; PROLOGUE: Muir's Trail; CHAPTER 1 The Scottish Lowlands; CHAPTER 2 "That Glorious Wisconsin Wilderness"; CHAPTER 3 Climbing the Ice Mountain; CHAPTER 4 Border Crossings; CHAPTER 5 The Long Walk; CHAPTER 6 Paradise Found; CHAPTER 7 The Higher Peaks; CHAPTER 8 Coming in from the Cold; CHAPTER 9 The Shores of Alaska; CHAPTER 10 Husbandry; CHAPTER 11 A Call to Lead; CHAPTER 12 The Company of Green Men; CHAPTER 13 Earthquakes; CHAPTER 14 The Troubled Nature of Wealth; EPILOGUE: "Slight Progress Heavenward"; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 494-508) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-983106-8

1-281-92547-0

9786611925475

0-19-972173-4

OCLC:

476239506