John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Scotland. In 1849 he emigrated
with his family to the United States, where he later enrolled in
courses in chemistry, geology, and botany at the University of
Wisconsin. Muir made extended journeys throughout America,
observing both scientifically and enthusiastically the beauties of
the wilderness. The Mountains of California, his first book, was
published in 1894. He eventually settled in California, where he
became an impassioned leader of the forest conservation movement.
His writings include Our National Parks (1901), My First Summer in
the Sierra (1911), The Yosemite (1912), Travels in Alaska (1915), A
Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), and Steep Trails (1918).
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, and The Age of
Missing Information. He is a frequent contributor to such
publications as Outside, The New York Times, and The New York
Review of Books, and a former staff writer at the New Yorker.
"When we consider John Muir, we consider one of the small handful of Americans who truly changed the world."--"Bill McKibben"
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