ISBN: 9780299161507

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 sym… Mehr…

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. Media >, [PU: University of Wisconsin Press]<

ISBN: 9780299161507

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 sym… Mehr…

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. Media >, [PU: University of Wisconsin Press]<

1999, ISBN: 0299161501

Taschenbuch

[EAN: 9780299161507], [SC: 18.55], [PU: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999., Madison:], WESTERN AMERICANA, First printing. 8vo. xv, 309 pp. Frontis., illustrations, index. Burgundy cloth… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780299161507], [SC: 18.55], [PU: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999., Madison:], WESTERN AMERICANA, First printing. 8vo. xv, 309 pp. Frontis., illustrations, index. Burgundy cloth, white stamped spine title. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0299161501 "Exciting, original, and highly readable. . . . This is a rich, challenging, original and beautifully written account of Muir's inner development as an environmental thinker." - John A. Tallmadge, president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Steven J. Holmes was a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University. [This is the original cloth issue; a later reprinted in wrappers]., Books<

1999, ISBN: 0299161501

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780299161507], [PU: University of Wisconsin Press, (1999)., (Madison):], WESTERN AMERICANA, First printing. 8vo. xv, 309 pp. Frontis., illustrations, index. Burgundy cloth, white s… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780299161507], [PU: University of Wisconsin Press, (1999)., (Madison):], WESTERN AMERICANA, First printing. 8vo. xv, 309 pp. Frontis., illustrations, index. Burgundy cloth, white stamped spine title. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0299161501, Books<

ISBN: 9780299161507

Hardcover book. 336 pages. Published by University of Wisconsin Press Media > Book, [PU: University of Wisconsin Press]