Kindred and Related Spirits : The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr

Gisel, Bonnie Johanna

ISBN 10: 0874806828 / ISBN 13: 9780874806823

Published by University of Utah Press, 2001

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kindred and Related Spirits : The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874806828
• ISBN 13: 9780874806823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.762 pounds

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Synopsis

While Muir's letters to Mrs. Carr were published in 1915, the letters to the influential naturalist by his longtime friend/mentor debut here. Includes photos, Carr's Yosemite sketches, a glossary of botanicals in the letters, a chronology, and a lightly annotated listing of these and some missing letters. Gisel (environmental studies, U. of the Pacific), interim director of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies, supplies biographical and contextual details. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Reviews

An extraordinary man, Muir led an extraordinary life, and as Gisel, the eloquent and expert editor of this groundbreaking volume, reveals, there's much yet to be learned about his adventures and writings.Muir was fortunate in his choice of friends. He was 22 when he met 35-year-old Jeanne Carr, the wife of a professor, at the Wisconsin State Fair. They became devoted correspondents, and Carr, mentor and "spiritual mother," became his anchor and confidante as she struggled to fit her botanical pursuits into a busy family and social life. Soul mates, both wrote lengthy letters pearled with thoughts of God and the sacredness of nature. Muir confessed that he felt unequal to the task of translating his transcendent experiences into language, but Carr never failed to encourage him, and readers owe her much gratitude for keeping Muir's pen in motion. Muir's letters to Carr have been available, but this is the first time her compelling correspondence has been published, and the combination, thanks to Gisel's scholarship, creates one of the great duets in the annals of nature writing. Donna Seaman
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