John Muir: From Scotland to the Sierra - A Biography

by Frederick Turner

Immigrant, inventor, botanist, writer and pioneering conservationist, Muir is one of the great Scots of the nineteenth century. From his humble origins in Dunbar, John Muir has risen to the status of an American icon as the father of American conservation. While others dreamed of becoming the archetypal New World Man, escaping into the wilderness beyond the confines and comfits of civilisation, very few actually lived the dream as Muir did, fully and deeply.

Frederick Turner's monumental work is the definitive biography on Muir.

536 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 20, 2014

About the author

Frederick Turner is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Reviews

[Mairi Byatt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I went to a talk on John Muir and needed to know more! Now I do! What a man!