Year of Publication
2017
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department
English
First Advisor
Erik Reece
Abstract
In 1867, the budding naturalist and future father of our national parks, John Muir, embarked on his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Cedar Key, Florida. Almost 150 years later I undertook the same journey, retracing the wilderness advocate’s footsteps through the South to catalog all that has changed in a century and a half of progress, to try and better understand the inception of his environmental ethics, and to learn to see the world as he did, harmonious, interconnected, rejuvenating and imbued with a pervasive spirituality. The chapters of this thesis retell selected legs of that journey.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.197
Recommended Citation
Gilpin, Chadwick N., "Retracing John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf" (2017). Theses and Dissertations--English. 57.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/57