The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 029909720X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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They deserve an audience with scholars and Muir devotees."—Shirley Sargent, Pacific HistorianIn this powerful study, Michael Cohen captures as never before the powerful consciousness, vision, and legacy of the pioneering environmentalist John Muir. Cohen's oft unanswered, and unanswerable, questions, his views of Muir's spiritual, intellectual, and political growth are insightful, challenging, and new. Ultimately, Cohen stresses, this ecological consciousness would generate an ecological conscience.It was no longer enough for Muir to individually test and celebrate his enlightenment in the wild. His vision, he now felt, must lead to concrete action, and the result was a protracted campaign that stressed the ecological education of the American public, governmental protection of natural resources, the establishment of the National Parks, and the encouragement of tourism.Anyone interested in environmental studies, in American history and literature, or in the future of our natural heritage will be drawn by the very bracing flavor of his wilderness odyssey, evoked here by one of his own—a twentieth-century mountaineer and lit
Lisa Fernandez said who brought to life America's environmental consciousness and founded "America's best idea" - the concept of protecting the coun. One of America's most distinguished historians writes a biography of one America's most legendary figures, who brought to life America's environmental consciousness and founded "America's best idea" - the concept of protecting the country's most treasured wilderness areas forever for all its citizens. Donald Wooster has pulled together a real tour de force that sheds new light onto the life of John Muir that goes back to Muir's roots in Scotland at the dawn of the industrial era, traces his family's emigration to settle the then American frontier in Wisconsin, and goes on to des
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