A passion for nature : the life of John Muir /
A definitive biography traces the life of John Muir from his boyhood in Scotland up to his death on the eve of World War I and offers important insights into the passionate nature of America's first great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Muir's trail
- The Scottish lowlands
- "That glorious Wisconsin wilderness"
- Climbing the ice mountain
- Border crossings
- The long walk
- Paradise found
- The higher peaks
- Coming in from the cold
- The shores of Alaska
- Husbandry
- A call to lead
- The company of green men
- Earthquakes
- The troubled nature of wealth
- "Slight progress heavenward."