By Corey Lee Lewis
ISBN-10: 0874176069
ISBN-13: 9780874176063
A provocative new option to learn and interpret the vintage works of John Muir, Mary Austin, and Gary Snyder, and to carry their principles into the dialogue of ecological values and the present environmental main issue. Lewis combines a perceptive dialogue in their paintings and ideas with an attractive account of his personal path reports as hiker/backpacker and volunteer path builder, presenting that one of these field-based, interdisciplinary method of literary learn and out of doors adventure can increase our appreciation for the paintings of nature writers.
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