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Infinite Good - The Mountains of William James (Paperback)
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Infinite Good - The Mountains of William James (Paperback)
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In Infinite Good: The Mountains of William James, author and
naturalist, J. Parker Huber,follows the famed naturalist and
philosopher William James sojourns in New England. The
Adirondacksawhere neither Muir nor Thoreau treadaJames revealed,
had the greatest influence on his life. He made annual pilgrimages
there in late nineteenth century. He bought land there, as well as
a farm at the south base of Mount Chocorua in the White Mountains
of New Hampshire, which became his country home. Drawing on James's
faithfully recorded itineraries, author J. Parker Huber provides
comprehensive and well-documented summaries about the excursions of
William James and his family. William James became increasingly
aware of nature's beneficence. In 1872, then thirty, he confided to
Henry in two letters what he had drawn from his Maine coast
experiences that summer. In the first, of 24 August, he wrote that
the "nervouspuckers" of his mind had been "smoothed out gently
& fairly by the sweet influences of many a lie on a hill top at
mt. Desert with sky & sea & Islands before me, by many a
row, and a couple of sails, and by my bath and siesta on the
blazing sand this morn." And, again in the fall of 1872, he wrote
that he had "never so much as this summer felt the soothing and
hygienic effects of nature upon the human spirit." Earlier his
enjoyment of nature had been a "luxury, but this time t'was as a
vital food, or medicine." And so it remained for his life. J Parker
Huber provides a fascinating look at the prominent philosopher's
love of the mountains and the solace he found there. Readers will
appreciate the scholarly research, but also participate in the
alpinist's adventures and revelations.
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