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In 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. Based on Muir's full private correspondence, it is full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man.Oxford University Press

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In 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. Based on Muir's full private correspondence, it is full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man.Oxford University Press
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David 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),