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Subject(s)

• American literature—California—History and criticism [Browse]
• Austin, Mary 1868-1934—Knowledge—California [Browse]
• Authors, American—Homes and haunts—California [Browse]
• Muir, John 1838-1914—Knowledge—California [Browse]
• Snyder, Gary 1930-—Knowledge—California [Browse]
• Natural history—Pacific Crest Trail [Browse]
• Environmental protection in literature [Browse]
• Pacific Crest Trail—In literature [Browse]
• California—Intellectual life [Browse]
• Natural history—California [Browse]
• California—In literature [Browse]
• Ecology in literature [Browse]
• Nature in literature [Browse]

Series

Environmental arts and humanities series. [More in this series]

Summary note

"John Muir, Mary Austin, and Gary Snyder are perhaps best known for their passionate connection to specific California regions - Muir's Sierra Nevada "Range of Light," Austin's southern "Land of Little Rain," and Snyder's "Kitkitdizze" region of the north. In Reading the Trail, ecocritic and outdoorsman Cory Lewis proposes a new way to read and interpret the classic works of these major nature writers and to bring their ideas into the discussion of ecological values and viable responses to the current environmental crisis. He combines a discussion of their work and ideas with an account of his own trail experiences as a hiker/backpacker and volunteer trail builder, proposing that such a feild-based, interdisciplinary approach to literary study and outdoors experience can enrich our appreciation for the work of nature writers and for the purpose and importance of the environmental movement."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236) and index.

Contents

• 1. Readers and writers of the California Crest Trail
• 2. Environmental education and the ecological crisis
• 3. Mary Austin in the Land of Little Rain
• 4. Protecting arid lands with Austin's aesthetics
• 5. John Muir on the Range of Light
• 6. Field journaling with Muir in mind
• 7. Gary Snyder at Kitkitdizze
• 8. Putting Snyder's reinhabitory principles into practice
• 9. In the footsteps of literary activists
• 10. Education for cultural transformation.

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ISBN

• 0874176069 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0874176050 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004023019

OCLC

56617166

RCP

C - O

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