{"title":"Donald Worster","description":"Donald 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),","products":[{"product_id":"a-passion-for-nature-the-life-of-john-muir-paperback","title":"A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer,\" John Muir wrote. \"Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Donald 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. \u003cem\u003eA Passion for Nature\u003c\/em\u003e is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards. Yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a self-made man of wealth and political influence. A man for whom mountaineering was \"a pathway to revelation and worship.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor anyone wishing to more fully understand America's first great environmentalist, and the enormous influence he still exerts today, Donald Worster's biography offers a wealth of insight into the passionate nature of a man whose passion for nature remains unsurpassed.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365704204511,"sku":"9780199782246","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HzVfcEKrq89780199782246.webp?v=1789070145"},{"product_id":"a-passion-for-nature-the-life-of-john-muir-hardcover","title":"A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer,\" John Muir wrote. \"Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Donald 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. \u003cem\u003eA Passion for Nature\u003c\/em\u003e is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards. Yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, a self-made man of wealth and political influence. A man for whom mountaineering was \"a pathway to revelation and worship.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor anyone wishing to more fully understand America's first great environmentalist, and the enormous influence he still exerts today, Donald Worster's biography offers a wealth of insight into the passionate nature of a man whose passion for nature remains unsurpassed.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365707022559,"sku":"9780195166828","price":46.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XdnqTHqvWQ9780195166828.webp?v=1789070162"},{"product_id":"dust-bowl-the-southern-plains-in-the-1930s-paperback","title":"Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. 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He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as \"the Buffalo Commons,\" where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365709643999,"sku":"9780195174885","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Onf_Y2f-Xy9780195174885.webp?v=1789070174"},{"product_id":"be-fruitful-and-multiply-how-fertility-and-innovation-have-changed-humankind-and-the-earth-hardcover","title":"Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of \u003ci\u003eHomo sapiens sapiens\u003c\/i\u003e to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history. Examining how this process led from foraging to the agrarian revolution and then to a capitalist way of life, Worster brings us face to face with a third transformation of human society that is beginning to take shape in China: an ecological civilization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This meticulously researched book explores how human desires have driven us to overrun our environments, and how we have adapted by creating new relationships with the earth. Tying the past to the future and humans to the planet, Worster acknowledges that we are at a potentially dangerous tipping point. Yet he offers a surprisingly optimistic vision, full of faith in the strength of our human desires, to help us develop exciting futures in a changing world--as we have done time and again--and achieve a good life for the billions of us trying to survive on a finite planet.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368781840607,"sku":"9780300278972","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/I3dXFeU0Zu9780300278972.webp?v=1789132413"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/donald-worster.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}