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Winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award
Winner of the Saltire Society Homecoming Award
Winner of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award
A Passion for Nature
The Life of John Muir
Donald Worster
544 pages
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39 halftones, 5 maps
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235x156mm
978-0-19-978224-6
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Paperback
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01 July 2011
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- One of the Washington Post Book World 's best books of 2008.
- Winner of multiple book awards—Ambassador Book Award in Biography and Autobiography of the English-Speaking Union of the United States, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, the Saltire Society Homecoming Award, the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award
- Written by acknowledged forefather of the field of environmental history.
- First comprehensive study of John Muir's life in six decades, based on full private correspondence, field journals, and published writings.
Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and
family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, and a self-made man of wealth and political influence. The winner of numerous book awards, A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of 2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biography of Muir to appear in six
decades.Readership: Students and general readers interested in biography, environmental history, Western history, California history, Scottish history, nature lovers, and conservationists.
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Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas Donald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas and the author of many books, including A River Running West, the Bancroft Prize-winning Dust Bowl, and Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West.
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"Worster's biography is scholarly" - Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
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Prologue: Muir's Trail
1.: Ch. 1 The Scottish Lowlands
2.: Ch. 2 "That Glorious Wisconsin Wilderness"
3.: Ch. 3 Climbing the Ice Mountain
4.: Ch. 4 Border Crossings
5.: Ch. 5 The Long Walk
6.: Ch. 6 Paradise Found
7.: Ch. 7 The High Peaks
8.: Ch. 8 Coming in from the Cold
9.: Ch. 9 The Shores of Alaska
10.: Ch. 10 Husbandry
11.: Ch. 11 A Call to Lead
12.: Ch. 12 The Company of Green Men
13.: Ch. 13 Earthquake
14.: Ch. 14 The Troubled Wealth of Nature
Epilogue: Trail's End
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