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The first in-depth treatment of Henry Thoreau and John Muir, two great students of our natural America, to explore Native American influence on the development of America's natural philosophies and environmental awareness.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter I Henry Thoreau's Indian Pathway
Chapter II John Muir's Homage to Henry David Thoreau
Chapter III John Muir among the Digger, Tlingit and Eskimoan People
A Postscript on Thoreau and Muir
Appendix: Henry David Thoreau and John Muir's Unpublished Manuscripts on Primal Cultures of the
American Wilderness
Notes
A Selective Bibliography
Index
About the author
Richard F. Fleck is author of Desert Rims to Mountains High, and also the foreword writer for the WestWinds Press Literary Naturalist Series. A professor of American literature for some fifty years, Fleck earned a PhD from the University of New Mexico (1970), and taught at the University of Wyoming, Osaka University, Japan, as well as Prescott College, the University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Bologna, Italy. At age seventy-five he remains active by climbing mountains and guiding Sierra Club hikes in Colorado and Utah and teaches occasional classes for Colorado Heights University.
John Muir (April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.
