John Muir to Yosemite and Beyond by Robert Engberg

John Muir to Yosemite and Beyond by Robert Engberg

When John Muir died in 1914, the pre-eminent American naturalist, explorer, and conservationist had not yet written the second volume of his autobiography, in which he planned to cover his Yosemite years. Editors Robert Engberg and Donald Wesling have here provided a remedy. Their account begins in 1863, the year Muir left the University of Wisconsin for what he termed the "University of the Wilderness." Following an accident in 1867 that nearly left him blind, he vowed to turn from machines and continue to study nature. That led, in 1868, to his first visit to Yosemite Valley, where he began his glacier studies. Muir spent much time exploring the Yosemite region, Tuolumne, and both the southern and northern Sierras, publishing articles, and keeping extensive journals through 1875, when he began to write for the San Francisco Bulletin and expanded his travels to areas throughout the west. Mining a rich vein of sources—Muir’s letters, journals, articles, and unpublished manuscripts, as well as selections drawn from biographical pieces written about Muir by people who met him in Yosemite in the early 1870s—Engberg and Wesling have assembled what they term a "composite autobiography," providing brief interpretive and transitional passages throughout the book. This work is especially valuable because it documents Muir’s formative years, when he is maturing away from "conventional cultural paradigms of work and materialism toward new ways of thinking about nature and its impact on human development."

"One cannot overemphasize these Yosemite yearsThe book’s contribution is not so much the unfolding of Muir the geologist, botanist, poet, theologian, ecologist, and humanitarian, but the highlighting of the emerging land ethic of our country’s most important conservationist."—Wisconsin Academy Review

"The book...is a must for all readers interested in the life and times of John Muir."— Richard F. Fleck, Community College of Denver

"Many will welcome the chance to have these valuable primary documents collected in one easily accessible source."
—New Mexico Historical Review  "This beautifully edited work...is a fine contribution to Western American history about a man who helped form the Sierra Club."
—Journal of the West

Robert Engberg is a teacher at Mission Bay High School in San Diego.

Donald Wesling is professor of English at the University of California, San Diego.

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ISBN 13	9780874805802
ISBN 10	0874805805
Titel	John Muir to Yosemite and Beyond
Autor	Robert Engberg
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Utah Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-01-30
Seitenanzahl	190
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.