Richard F. Fleck 
Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Native Americans 

No two persons in the United States have written with as much passion and power about the bond between human beings and the natural world as Thoreau of WALDEN and Muir of MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA. For both, Native Americans best exemplified the innate need of the human spirit to merge with the primal wilderness. This is the first book to treat together and in depth these two great students of our natural America to explore Native American influence on the development not only of their—but America’s—natural philosophies and environmental awareness.

Tabella dei contenuti

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Appendix: Henry David Thoreau and John Muir’s Unpublished Manuscripts on Primal Cultures of the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

Circa l’autore

Richard F. Fleck is author of Desert Rims to Mountains High, and also the foreword writer for the West Winds Press Literary Naturalist Series. A professor of American literature for some fifty years, Fleck earned a Ph D from the University of New Mexico (52