Muir recalls a wild childhood on the stormy coast at Dunbar in Scotland, then the family’s emigration to the Wisconsin frontier. There he grew up clearing land and ploughing under a stern father, watching the birds and animals of the woods and lakes, inventing clocks and other machines in his spare hours, and finally setting out for the university.
The early life of America’s great conservationist, told with the same delight in wild things that marks all his books. Download the free EPUB.