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A biography of John Muir examines his accomplishments as an inventor, botanist, conservationist, and traveler, and attempts to depict his complex personality
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This latest in a spate of Muir biographies is in many ways a tour de force. It is splendidly and passionately written by Turner, who is at his best about a subject when he has visited the physical sites. For a study of the Sierra Club's founder, this meant a trip to Muir's Scottish birthplace, a dip in the boyhood swimming hole in Wisconsin, a duplication of Muir's 1867 walk from Indiana to Florida, and of course, hikes through the Sierras. The author is wonderfully lyrical in his chapters on Muir's years as a mountain man in Yosemite and sympathetically handles Muir's transformation from fundamentalist Christian to pantheist. This reviewer's only complaint is with his attempt to provide a context for Muir's life in the postbellum period. Turner's history is relentlessly Beardian, and he cheerfully dismisses recent scholarship. Nonetheless, this book belongs in most academic and public libraries. James W. Oberly, History Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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In this thorough, competent biography, Turner tells the story of John Muir's childhood in Scotland, his emigration to Wisconsin and education at the state university, his "thousand-mile walk" to the Gulf of Mexico and explorations of the far West, his early advocacy of forest conservation and responsibility for the establishment of national parks and wilderness areas. Muir's youthful attachment to Jeanne Carr and his life with and apart from his wife Louie are sensitively described, as are his relationships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot; his wife's influence in turning him toward the wider world, away from his ranch and family, is sympathetically acknowledged. In his own life, Muir uniquely reconciled the conflict between democratic individualism and participatory democracy. October 25
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0670807745
- ISBN 13 9780670807741
- BindingHardcover
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