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Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Linnie Marsh Wolfe

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Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946. Its author worked for twenty-two years on John Muir, including as secretary of the John Muir Association and as editor of Muir's unpublished papers. She interviewed many family members and people who knew and worked with John Muir to produce this account of Muir's life. She recounts Muir's Scottish origins, his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, his remarkable mechanical aptitude and interest in botany and geology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he spent two and a half years before traveling to the Canadian wilderness, and then to California where he spent most of his life.

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Publisher
Plunkett Lake Press
Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
John Muir's lifeEnvironmentalism and naturalismAmerican wilderness exploration

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