Cast out of Eden : the untold story of John Muir, indigenous peoples, and the American wilderness / Robert Aquinas McNally.
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TextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]Description: xviii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781496227263 (hardcover)
- 1496227263
- Muir, John, 1838-1914
- Naturalists -- United States -- Biography
- Nature conservation -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Public lands -- United States -- History
- Indian land transfers -- West (U. S.) -- History
- Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Colonization
- Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934
- United States -- Race relations -- History
- United States -- Environmental conditions
- 333.72092 23
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| NEW_BOOK | Meaford Public Library New Books | Non-fiction | 333. 72 McNal (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 10/07/2024 | 30893 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: The view from Sheepy Ridge, one -- From old world to new -- A widening world darkens -- The ungodliness of dirt -- Yosemite's genocidal backstory -- Return to the garden - Well done for wildness! -- Missionary to the Tlingits -- One savage living on another -- The grapes of wealth -- Wilderness influencer -- On top of the world -- River out of Eden -- Leave only footprints, take only pictures -- Bettering America's best idea -- Epilogue: The view from Sheepy Ridge, two.
"Cast Out of Eden explores John Muir's role in the legacy of racialized colonialism affecting U.S. wild lands and points toward a way forward"-- Provided by publisher.
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