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Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson Jan 2016

Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson

Northwestern Review

Donald Worster’s A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir is a magisterial biography. It is the place to begin for understanding John Muir (1838-1914), the Scottish immigrant and popular U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era naturalist most famous as the self-appointed spokesperson for Yosemite Valley, the founder of the Sierra Club, and the most outspoken opponent of the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley by the City of San Francisco. Worster explores Muir’s tensions and contradictions. He also astutely analyzes Muir’s religiously-inflected “passion for nature.” He clarifies that Muir was not a neo-Transcendentalist, let alone a Buddhist, but rather …

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Part 06 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 06 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 11 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 11 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 07 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 07 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 10 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 10 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 01 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 01 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 02 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jul 1908

Part 02 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 08 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jan 1908

Part 08 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 09 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jan 1908

Part 09 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 05 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jan 1908

Part 05 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 04 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir Jan 1908

Part 04 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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