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In 1867, John Muir answered his divine call to journey into the wilderness. After an accident caused blindness, Muir regained his sight and dedicated his life to exploring, researching, and protecting nature. But though in that terrible darkness, I died to light, said Muir, I lived again, and God who is Light has led me tenderly from light to light. In this abbreviated and lightly edited version of Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, author Christopher W. Bogosh picks up Muir's journey in Savannah, Georgia, and traces it from Fernandina Beach and onto Cedar Key, Florida. As a resident in Northeast Florida, Muir's journey became an inspiration for Bogosh's own cycling expedition across the State, recorded as a brief conclusion to the book. Bogosh respects Muir's deep roots as a Scottish Covenanter, gratitude for his less than perfect evangelical father, and biblically rich imagination as a Christian poet, in the tradition of John Milton, John Bunyan, and William Cowper. In so doing, he presents a portrait of Muir not found in most of his biographies but is true to Muir's own autobiographical information. John Muir for Lovers of the Creator and Creation: A Post-Civil War Journey thru the Wild-Wild South is not just a record of Muir's long walk; it is an inward journey that will inspire the reader to enjoy the Creator and creation, appreciate Muir as a devout Christian naturalist, and to have a better understanding of the devastation caused to the South by the Civil War.

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