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Science 7 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5903, pp. 859 - 860
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166796
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Great American Pantheist

Jared Farmer

A Passion for Nature
The Life of John Muir
by Donald Worster
Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. 543 pp. $34.95, £18.99. ISBN 9780195166828.
Drawing on Muir's private correspondence, Worster offers a detailed, scholarly account of his subject's experiences, friendships, and foundational role in the American conservationist movement.
The reviewer is at the Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348, USA. E-mail: jared.farmer{at}stonybrook.edu

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