Nature's beloved son : rediscovering John Muir's botanical legacy / Bonnie J. Gisel ; with images by Stephen J. Joseph ; foreword by David Rains Wallace.

Title
  1. Nature's beloved son : rediscovering John Muir's botanical legacy / Bonnie J. Gisel ; with images by Stephen J. Joseph ; foreword by David Rains Wallace.
Published by
  1. Berkeley, California : Heyday Books, [2008]
Author
  1. Gisel, Bonnie Johanna, 1948-

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Additional authors
  1. Joseph, Stephen J.
Description
  1. xxx, 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 31 cm
Summary
  1. "In this book, photographer Stephen J. Joseph presents images of plants collected directly by John Muir, while scholar Bonnie J. Gisel lays before us the life and words of a man at once familiar and surprising, a towering figure forever smitten with 'nature's irresistible, divine beauty.'"--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Muir, John, 1838-1914
  2. Naturalists > United States > Biography
  3. Conservationists > United States > Biography
  4. Botanical specimens > United States
  5. Naturalistes > États-Unis > Biographies
  6. Botanique > Spécimens > États-Unis
  7. Botanical specimens
  8. Conservationists
  9. Naturalists
  10. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Biography
  2. Biographies
  3. Biographies.
Contents
  1. From Scotland to Wisconsin : in the fullness of nature's glad wildness -- Canada and Indianapolis : to botanize in glorious freedom -- Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico : scarce a familiar face among the flowers -- California : the High Sierra and Yosemite -- Alaska : nature's own reserve -- Epilogue : the view from Muir's plants.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-240) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain