Yearning for the Land
Subtitle: A Search for the Importance of Place
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: September 24, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780375420863
First sentence: Did that February morning leave John and his brother David time for one last look at the remains of ancient Dunbar Castle and the two small fishing harbors it symbolically guarded at the foot of the brae, the rise that partitioned the town into its coastal community along the rugged shore and its town center above.
Description: "What does landscape mean to us? How does it shape our sense of "rootedness" to place and connection to community? Can that sense and that connection enrich us in the same manner as having knowledge of our familial lineage?

Landscape historian John Warfield Simpson sets out to answer these questions by following the journey of the great conservationist John Muir from his homeland along the North Sea coast in East Lothian County, Scotland, to his family's adopted home in the fields and forests of Marquette County, Wisconsin. Along the way he discovers much about himself; and we, in turn, can learn much about ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.