Barrus was Burroughs’s physician, companion and eventual literary executor, and this is an affectionate life told partly in his own words: the Catskill boyhood, the years as a bank examiner in Washington and the friendship with Whitman, the farm at Riverby and the cabin at Slabsides, and the visitors — Roosevelt, Muir, Edison, Ford — who came looking for him.
America’s best-loved naturalist, drawn from the inside. Download the free EPUB.