At twenty-nine, half-blinded in a factory accident and then recovered, Muir walked from Indiana to Florida by the wildest route he could find. The journal records the Kentucky forests, the Appalachians, the ruined post-war South and its people, the Florida swamps and the fever that nearly killed him — and the sentences where he first works out that the world was not made for us.
The walk that turned a machinist into John Muir. Download the free EPUB.