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John Muir's "Stickeen" and the Lessons of Nature

Door Ronald H. Limbaugh

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#297128
Titel	John Muir's "Stickeen" and the Lessons of Nature
Auteur	Limbaugh, Ronald H.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	0912006846
ISBN13	9780912006840
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original artificial leather, dust jacket, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This is a literary detective story. Like all good stories, it could begin, "Once upon a time..." Once upon a time in 1880, a young man named John Muir spent a day crossing a rugged glacier in Alaska. Though he did not even think it worth recording in that evening's diary entry, a little black dog had accompanied him on that storm-haunted trek. As time passed, the image of the dog and what it symbolized grew in Muir's mind, entering his after-dinner sessions of storytelling. Seventeen years after the event, the popular story of Stickeen finally saw print, though in a form much edited from Muir's original. Historian Ronald H. Limbaugh here explains the mystery of why John Muir struggled for so long to bring Stickeen to life. Dr. Limbaugh pursued the evolution of the tale through a... (Lees verder) previously underexplored resource, the handwritten annotations Muir left in the volumes of his personal library. His thorough study covers the oral and literary history of the adventure, discusses its style, content, and sources, and places it - and Muir's difficulties in perfecting it - in the context of some of the major concerns of the era, particularly the Darwinian debates and the emerging animal rights movement.
Pagina's	185
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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