Yearning for the Land Search for the Importance of Place by John W. Simpson 1st

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ISBN
9780375420863
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
037542086X
ISBN-13
9780375420863
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038302096

Product Key Features

Book Title
Yearning for the Land : a Search for the Importance of Place
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Human Geography, Ecology
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Social Science, Science
Author
John W. Simpson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in

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LCCN
2002-020692
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"An evocative, detailed, and powerful analysis of the landscape values underlying both the North American immigrant experience and contemporary environmental values." -John Stilgoe, author ofOutside Lies Magic "A fresh and unusual book-part biography of John Muir, part personal travels, part meditation on what it means to belong to a place. Exceptionally readable and thought-provoking." -Donald Worster, author ofThe Wealth of Nature "Place, as John Simpson knows well, is a multifacted composite of history, natural environment, and personal experience. A sense and valuation of place may hold the secret to living lovingly and sustainably on this endangered planet." -Roderick Frazier Nash, author ofWilderness and the American Mind "An eloquent and evocative insight into the power of landscape and place in the human experience. Simpson skillfully links the story of people and the land in Scotland and the U.S.A. by following the journey of John Muir, the father of the modern conservation movement, from the Old World to the New. A fascinating read." -T. M. Devine, author ofA Scottish Nation "We are not doomed to live in abject spiritual disconnection from our American landscape. Simpson's lyrical book is a signpost on the road back to a national life based on places that are worth caring about." -James Howard Kunstler, author ofHome from Nowhere, "An evocative, detailed, and powerful analysis of the landscape values underlying both the North American immigrant experience and contemporary environmental values." -John Stilgoe, author of Outside Lies Magic "A fresh and unusual book-part biography of John Muir, part personal travels, part meditation on what it means to belong to a place. Exceptionally readable and thought-provoking." -Donald Worster, author of The Wealth of Nature "Place, as John Simpson knows well, is a multifacted composite of history, natural environment, and personal experience. A sense and valuation of place may hold the secret to living lovingly and sustainably on this endangered planet." -Roderick Frazier Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind "An eloquent and evocative insight into the power of landscape and place in the human experience. Simpson skillfully links the story of people and the land in Scotland and the U.S.A. by following the journey of John Muir, the father of the modern conservation movement, from the Old World to the New. A fascinating read." -T. M. Devine, author of A Scottish Nation "We are not doomed to live in abject spiritual disconnection from our American landscape. Simpson's lyrical book is a signpost on the road back to a national life based on places that are worth caring about." -James Howard Kunstler, author of Home from Nowhere
Dewey Decimal
304.2
Synopsis
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. In 1849 the Muirs immigrated from East Lothian to the wilds of central Wisconsin in search of religious and economic opportunity. What concept of land did they and millions of others from the Old World leave behind, and what did they find in their New World homes? Simpson physically retraces the Muirs' journey, as he delves into the meaning and importance of place. He speaks with estate owners and tenant farmers in Scotland who have centuries-long ties to the land they own or work; to Wisconsin farmers for whom one hundred years measures a profound connection to place; and to Native Americans working to reclaim the land they lost to white pioneers like the Muirs and to the author's own Scottish ancestors. Among all of these people Simpson discovers a powerful link between personal and communal history, and a deep connection to the land on which they have been played out. Time and history, landscape and community, are tightly intertwined, Simpson learns. Roots matter, he discovers, in his adopted home of Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland.
LC Classification Number
GF556.E27S56 2002

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