Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice

by Terry Gifford

Advancing for the first time the concept of "post-pastoral practice," Reconnecting with John Muir springs from Terry Gifford's understanding of the great naturalist as an exemplar of integrated, environmentally conscious knowing and writing. Just as the discourses of science and the arts were closer in Muir's day--in part, arguably, because of Muir--it is time we learned from ecology to recognize how integrated our own lives are as readers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820327964
• ISBN13: 9780820327969
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"