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
- 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
- Berkeley, California : Heyday Books, [2008]
- Author
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- Description
- xxx, 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 31 cm
- Summary
- "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
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Contents
- 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
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-240) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain