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Following the odyssey of the great nineteenth-century naturalist and conservationist John Muir from his Scottish homeland to Wisconsin, the author of Visions of Paradise addresses the questions of what landscape means and assesses the meaning and significance of place in varying societies. 15,000 first printing.
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What does landscape mean to us? How does it shape our sense of "rootedness" to place and connection to community? Can that sense and that connection enrich us in the same manner as having knowledge of our familial lineage? Landscape historian John Warfield Simpson sets out to answer these questions by following the journey of the great conservationist John Muir from his homeland along the North Sea coast in East Lothian County, Scotland, to his family's adopted home in the fields and forests of Marquette County, Wisconsin. Along the way he discovers much about himself; and we, in turn, can learn much about ourselves.
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