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Letters To A Friend
by John Muir
(
from the book's dust jacket
)
Letters To A Friend
by John Muir
1973, 1990 reprint of 1915 edition
Norman S. Berg, Publisher,
Dunwoody, Georgia
When John Muir was a student in the
University of Wisconsin
he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr.
Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and
especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist
and a lover of nature, felt in the young man's interests
and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He
regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and
his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a
sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood
and sympathized with him. These letters are therefore
peculiarly revealing of the writer's personality. Most of
them were written from
Yosemite
Valley, and they give a
good notion of the life Muir led there, sheep-herding,
guiding, and tending a sawmill at intervals to earn his
daily bread, but devoting his real self to an ardent
scientific study of glacial geology and a joyous and
reverent communion with Nature.
The full text of this book is available.
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