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25%OFFDonald Worster - A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir - 9780199782246 - V9780199782246
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

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Description for A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 39 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: BGT; RNKH; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 39. Weight in Grams: 708.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
767g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199782246
SKU
V9780199782246
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About Donald Worster
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.

Reviews for A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Worster's biography is scholarly
Sunday Herald (Glasgow)

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