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The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2006/2007, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies
The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2006/2007, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
The John Muir EWSLETTEB Two California Lions: John Muir & Luther Burbank by Roberta M. McDow, Stockton, CA I have long wanted to know you," John Muir wrote from his home in Martinez, California on January 6, 1910. "Strange how people so near are so long kept apart."1 His message accompanied a receipt dated December 29, 1909 for five dollars, about one hundred in today's currency, contributed to the Society for the Preservation of National Parks.2 A day later, Muir's letter arrived at its destination in Santa Rosa. The recipient was Luther Burbank. Burbank had lived in the area since …
The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2006, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies
The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2006, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
The John Muir pr/- FEB UNlVfeHSnY 0F THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CA VOLUME 16, NC1MBKX 4 Fall 2006 John Muir's World Tour (part IV) Introduction by W. R. Swagerty Director, John Muir Center Edited by John Hurley and W.R. Swagerty In Part IV of John Muir's unpublished World Tour, we follow Muir from Egypt to Ceylon (Sri Lanke) to Australia. Notebook "# 51" begins with a description of Suez as a "queer old town" followed by praise for the oasis-environment that produces so many palms and bananas. Much of the notebook focuses on Muir's touring of the Pyramids, those "stupendous monuments …
The John Muir Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2006, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies
The John Muir Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2006, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir's World Tour (part III) Introduction by W. R. Swagerty Director, John Muir Center In this issue, we resume John Muir's unpublished notebooks from his World Tour, 1903-1904. This double issue covers the dates August 18 through November 2, 1903, all recorded in notebook number fifty of the John Muir Papers at University of the Pacific. The transcription by Pulizer-prize winner and Muir-biographer Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1881-1945) is part of her papers, also at Pacific in Holt-Atherton Special Collections, a subset of.. ' the Muir Papers. The Wolfe Papers are described thus in the on-line catalog to Holt-Atherton Department …
Prophecy And Porneia In Shenoute's Letters: The Rhetoric Of Sexuality In A Late Antique Egyptian Monastery, Caroline T. Schroeder
Prophecy And Porneia In Shenoute's Letters: The Rhetoric Of Sexuality In A Late Antique Egyptian Monastery, Caroline T. Schroeder
College of the Pacific Faculty Articles
The writer examines the apparently ubiquitous sexual references in the first surviving letters of Shenoute. Shenoute's references to sexuality constitute one aspect of his self-representation as his community's prophet. His textual performance as a prophet in these texts indicates that his sexual rhetoric served not only to condemn sexual activity among ascetics but also to help construct a relationship between God and the monastic community that is based on the relationship between God and the people in the Christian Old Testament. The sins of the monastery, as understood by Shenoute, like those of Israel or the nations in the prophetic …
John Muir Is Alive And Well And Living In Stockton, Bruce Hamilton
John Muir Is Alive And Well And Living In Stockton, Bruce Hamilton
Muir Symposium
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Full Program, University Of The Pacific
Tašnintu Ii, ‘Repetition, Teaching’?, Alan Lenzi
Tašnintu Ii, ‘Repetition, Teaching’?, Alan Lenzi
College of the Pacific Faculty Articles
No abstract provided.