John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures/Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice

Established Muir scholars such as Ron Limbaugh, Daryl Morrison, Ron Eber, Bonnie Gisel, Daniel Phillippon, and Michael Branch, as well as new Muir scholars and others contributing to Muir's context, including Ruth Sutter, Char Miller, Barbara Mossberg, James Warren, and Corey Lewis, extend our...

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Published in:Environmental history 2007, Vol.12 (2), p.424
Main Author: Williams, Dennis
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Muir, John
Nonfiction
Poetry
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Summary:Established Muir scholars such as Ron Limbaugh, Daryl Morrison, Ron Eber, Bonnie Gisel, Daniel Phillippon, and Michael Branch, as well as new Muir scholars and others contributing to Muir's context, including Ruth Sutter, Char Miller, Barbara Mossberg, James Warren, and Corey Lewis, extend our biographical awareness of Muir and his place in the histories of California, conservation, and American society at the turn of the twentieth century by focusing attention on Muir's circle of family and friends, the controversies that whirled around Muir's work (both while living and posthumously), ongoing interpretation of his literary product, and the travels that informed his writing. In the end, Gifford achieves his intention of using "Muir as a symbol of integrated knowledge and multiple modes of discourse" (p. 13) and contributing to an understanding of how "reading, researching, teaching, and writing can be seen to inform each other in the activities of an ecocritic aware of the dangers of idealization of environmental literature" (p. 14).
ISSN:1084-5453
1930-8892