
Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 1849–1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution’s infancy.
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1838–1914
A Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
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