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John Muir: Rediscovering America
by Frederick Turner
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from the book's dust jacket
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John Muir: Rediscovering America
by Frederick Turner
A Merloyd Lawrence Book, 2000, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge Massachusetts
originally published in 1985 by Viking Penguin Inc.
as
Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours
"An imaginative, beautifully written biography." - The New York
Times
"From a young vagabond to the crony of presidentsa biography as
shapely as its subjects life and death." - The Washington Post
In this stirring saga, Frederick Turner, the distinguished writer
and cultural historian, captures the legendary scale of John
Muir's extraordinary life. Immigrant, inventor, botanist, and
one of the founders of the conservation movement (and the Sierra
Club), Muir truly led those of his timeand now oursto
rediscover the natural beauty of this land. From his harsh
childhood in Scotland and on an unforgiving Wisconsin pioneer
farm, to rugged, solitary explorations all over the country,
especially in the Sierra, to his passionate battle, in person and
in his writings, to save and celebrate our wilderness, Muir was a
heroic figure. Turner's biography is every bit as monumental and
inspiring as his subject.
"Splendid and passionately written a tour de force." - Library
Journal
"presented in a prose so brightly graceful that the very reading
of it is a literary experience of rare magnitudenever likely to
be surpassed." - Wilderness
Frederick Turner is the author of Spirit of Place: The Making of
an American Literary Landscape, Beyond Geography: The Western
Spirit Against the Wilderness and many other much admired books
on American literature and landscape.
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