John P. OGrady - Pilgrims to the wild: Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin
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Pilgrims to the Wild is a survey of American writers who have responded to their encounters with the natural world. Ranging in its treatment from Thoreaus important but neglected essay, Walking, to the exuberant letters of the young artist Everett Ruess (who disappeared in the Escalante canyonlands), this is a broadly based exploration that brings to bear Eastern and Western classical philosophy, as well as contemporary critical theory, on a distinctive tradition of American Writingthose works concerned with the human relationship to the nonhuman world.In addition to offering a fresh interpretation of classic authors such a Thoreau and Muir, this book introduces readers to the less widely known but equally fascinating writers Clarence King and Mary Austin.
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Everett Ruess Henry David Thoreau John Muir Clarence King Mary Austin
John P. O'Grady
University of Utah Press Salt Lake City
title
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Pilgrims to the Wild : Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin
author
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O'Grady, John P.
publisher
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University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874804124
print isbn13
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9780874804126
ebook isbn13
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9780585106793
language
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English
subject
American prose literature--History and criticism, Naturalists--United States--Biography--History and criticism, Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism, Wilderness areas--United States--Historiography, Natural history--United States--Historiog
publication date
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1993
lcc
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PS163.O18 1993eb
ddc
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818/.08
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American prose literature--History and criticism, Naturalists--United States--Biography--History and criticism, Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism, Wilderness areas--United States--Historiography, Natural history--United States--Historiog
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1993 by the University of Utah Press All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O'Grady, John P., 1958 Pilgrims to the wild : Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin / by John P. O'Grady. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87480-412-4 (alk. paper)
1. American prose literatureHistory and criticism. 2. NaturalistsUnited StatesBiographyHistory and criticism. 3. Authors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticism. 4. Wilderness areasUnited StatesHistoriography. 5. Natural historyUnited StatesHistoriography. 6. Wilderness areas in literature. 7. Nature in literature. I. Title. PS163.018 1993 818' .08-dc20 92-29783 CIP
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Abbreviations
xv
One The Story of Everett Ruess
1
Two Henry David Thoreau: Sauntering along the Edge
23
Three John Muir's Parables of Desire
47
Four The Subterranean Clarence King
87
Five Mary Austin's Gleanings of the Wild
123
After Words
155
Works Cited
157
Index
165
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Space reaches out from us and translates the world. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Preface
The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and inexorable by far Than empty tigers or raring sea. Romeo and Juliet (V:iii 37-39)
This preface should have been written atop a mountain. I tried. Before I wrote the bulk of this book, I climbed Koip Peak, in the Yosemite High Sierra, late one dark afternoon in August 1990, outfitted with notebook and good intentions, but an immense thunderstormoutstanding disturbanceinterrupted my jottings, routing me from the peak in a panic of self-preservation. Yosemite National Park was set afire, I almost perished from hypothermia, and that preface was never completed. It's just as well. The word preface itself is a contradictionliterally a "speaking before"and, as every reader knows, the preface is the final bit of book indited. Herein lies an austere beauty: The last written shall be the first read. The beginning is the ending.
Koip Peak offered me no words. A mountain needs no preface, requires no apology, no explanation. So I turn instead to literature, to a poet who lived his most significant days beyond the mountains. In the late 1930s, Kenneth Rexroth composed a book-length manuscript entitled "Camping in the Western Mountains." Written under the auspices of the Federal Writers Project, the book for some reason never saw publication. Perhaps it was ahead of its timeor maybe just too idiosyncratic, too ornery, to have found a market. In any case, this manuscript, yellowed and languishing now in a prosaic library, provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of backcountry camping as it was understood at the time; its subjects range from sleeping-bag construction to the arcana of equine constipation. Although he clearly intended his book to be a technical self-help manual for the outdoor enthusiast, Rexroth, the poet-litterateur-anarchist could not refrain from interjecting his own unmistakable voice into the treatise and, in so doing, revealing his love for the subject matter.
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Toward the end of the manuscript, he suggests a number of books that might be useful to readers unfamiliar with the "philosophy" of roughing it. He says, "There are books that have nothing to do with camping, and less to do with the Western mountains, that are valuable preparations for a camping trip."1 Rexroth recommends that the novice camper stuff a remarkable assortment of books into the pack: Izaak Walton's
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