About the Author

Relatively unknown in his native Scotland, John Muir is renowned in the United States as the father of conservation. A friend of presidents and founder of National Parks, Muir was inspired by a love and a vision of nature as remarkable today as it was last century.

Reviews

'It is fascinating...the memoirs have beguiling warmth and immediacy'
*Glasgow Herald*

'It was after reading John Muir that I fell under his spell. The quality of the man...came out in his writing'
*Scotsman Weekend*