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Overview

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing."
In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world. 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 his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a self-made man of wealth and political influence. A man for whom mountaineering was "a pathway to revelation and worship."
For anyone wishing to more fully understand America's first great environmentalist, and the enormous influence he still exerts today, Donald Worster's biography offers a wealth of insight into the passionate nature of a man whose passion for nature remains unsurpassed.

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[Worster] captures Muir the man with economy and grace, and gives the reader a clear sense of his public stature: We are reaching a point where Nature is no longer considered just a storehouse of economic resources, Worster argues, but "a value in itself. No one in nineteenth-century America was more important than Muir in persuading people to move toward such a vision."
—The Washington Post
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Worster brings superb scholarly credentials to the task…Readers with a merely casual interest in Muir aren't likely to persist. But the doughty ones who stay the course will be rewarded. The record of Muir's life that Worster has scrupulously assembled, fascinating in its own right, takes on added significance as Worster sets it in context.
—The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195166828
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication date: 10/21/2008
  • Pages: 544
  • Sales rank: 350,853
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Donald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas and the author of many books, including A River Running West (OUP 2000); The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (OUP 1993); and Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (OUP 1993),

Table of Contents

Prologue Muir's Trail 3

Ch. 1 The Scottish Lowlands 13

Ch. 2 "That Glorious Wisconsin Wilderness" 42

Ch. 3 Climbing the Ice Mountain 67

Ch. 4 Border Crossings 92

Ch. 5 The Long Walk 118

Ch. 6 Paradise Found 149

Ch. 7 The Higher Peaks 181

Ch. 8 Coming in from the Cold 216

Ch. 9 The Shores of Alaska 246

Ch. 10 Husbandry 276

Ch. 11 A Call to Lead 305

Ch. 12 The Company of Green Men 332

Ch. 13 Earthquakes 366

Ch. 14 The Troubled Nature of Wealth 401

Epilogue "Slight Progress Heavenward" 454

Bibliography 494

Index 511

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  • Posted May 2, 2009

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    A Most Excellent Biography

    By Dag Stomberg, St. Andrews, Scotland

    This biography of John Muir begins in Scotland, carries us through his
    early years in Wisconsin, to his pilgrimage to California and beyond.

    An explanation of his Philosophy is well done.

    Fundamental reading for all of us who have a passion for nature.

    The Bibliography to this book is superb.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 16, 2011

    If you have a Passion for Nature- a must read

    If you are a nature enthusiast, and are aware of all the good that John Muir did for our natural parks and forests, you will love this book. I became interested in Muir after a summer trip to Yosemite National Park. Makes you realize even more how vulnerable our natural resources are to big industry and those who are just interested in making money at all costs. We came close to losing our gentle giants, the Sequoias, to the lumber companies. But through government intervention and protection they are still there for all to see. It is written nicely and reads well even though it is non-fiction.

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  • Posted September 8, 2011

    Wonderfully thought-provoking narrative of an extraordinary life.

    Those readers who are interested in a biography of John Muir will probably already have an appreciation for the beauty and majesty of Nature and perhaps support conservation and environmentalism. This book provides the background story of who John Muir was and what he believed about God and nature, man's role in the natural world, and why we should value all life on earth, not just human life. To Muir, the might and majesty of God were most easily perceived in the roar of wind and waves, the impenetrable silence of a mountain forest, the crystalline brilliance of a glacial stream, and the kaleidoscopic colors of a prairie full of wildflowers. This book covers not just the facts of his life but incorporates his philosophy at different stages of his life and as America developed the West during the Gilded Age. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, savoring every chapter. If you are a nature lover at heart, you will love this book and find yourself comparing your own feelings about Nature and God with those of Muir. It will be worth your time.

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