ISBN: 9781597145503
Editorial: Heyday
Autor: Muir, John
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 168
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: A new edition of Muir’s writings that places his environmentalist ideals alongside his damaging prejudicesEssayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California’s best-known icon. A literary naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club and Yosemite National Park, Muir left his legacy on the landscape and on paper. But the celebrity of John Muir does not tell the whole story. In Essential Muir, for the first time, Muir's selected writings include those that show his ecological vision without ignoring his racism, providing a more complete portrait of the man. Taking the best of John Muir’s writings on nature and placing them alongside his musings on religion, society, and his fellow humans, Essential Muir asks the reader to consider how these connect, and what that means for Muir’s legacy in environmentalism today.Fred D. White’s selections from Muir’s writings, and his illuminating commentary in his revised introduction, reveal the complex man and writer behind the iconic name. In the new foreword, Jolie Varela (Tule River Yokut and Paiute) of Indigenous Women Hike speaks back to Muir, addressing the impact of his words and actions on California Indians. This collection, which highlights John Muir’s charms and confronts his flaws, is vital for understanding the history of environmental thought.About the AuthorJohn Muir (1838–1914) was a naturalist, author, and advocate for wilderness preservation. A prolific writer, his many books, essays, and letters abound with wit, humor, and an exuberant love of the natural world.Fred D. White is an associate professor of composition, and he directed the writing program at Santa Clara University from 2003 to 2005. His books include The Well-Crafted Argument (with Simone Billings), Lifewriting, Communicating Technology, Science and the Human Spirit, and The Writer’s Art.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Foreword by Jolie VarelaI started up the Rock Creek trail enjoying the sun and anticipating the seven-mile hike ahead. Just a few feet up I saw a family scrambling for a photo in front of the John Muir Wilderness sign. They watched me approach and I already knew they would ask me to take their family photo in front of the sign. A sign that I feel erases my people’s history in the so-called Sierra Nevada. To understand the history we have to go back, and I mean way back. Before John Muir, and before the mountains were renamed the Sierra Nevada by Padre Pedro Font, a Spanish colonizer.I am Nüümü, better known by our government name as Paiute. My people have lived among the mountains for thousands and thousands of years. Before the mountains were called Sierra Nevada by colonizers they were called Pamidu Toiyabe by my ancestors. Meaning the West mountains. From the Valley we call home the mountains sit to the west of us. Payahuunadü would be known as the Owens Valley, after Richard Owens, who actually never stepped foot in the Valley. Payahuunadü, the place of flowing water is home to our creation. People come from all over the world to recreate on our homelands. My relatives were born in places like the Buttermilk area and the Owens River Gorge which are now more commonly recognized as climbing destinations. No matter what colonizer names have tried to replace and erase our histories these places are our homelands. These new colonial names can’t sever ancient connections.My people along with neighboring tribes would travel the Pamidu Toiyabe for trade and ceremony. Each tribe would have a name for the trails or mountains in their own languages. What is more commonly known as the John Muir Trail today is sprinkled with artifacts from this time. You can find arrowheads and chipped obsidian all along the trail. I’ve seen grinding stones and abalone as well. In an act of reclamation and responsibility to tell the true story of the trail we call the trail the Nuumü Poyo which means the people’s trail. John Muir follo
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