![]() ![]() ![]() In subsequent years he produced innumerable articles and lectures from the journals of regular summer trips to the mountains of California, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. His journals from this period, My First Summer in the Sierra, were published in 1911. Living rough, Muir studied geology and the plant and animal life around him. In 1868 he went to the Sierra Nevada mountains and spent five years in the Yosemite valley, which influenced the rest of his life. He set out on an epic walk from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico, keeping a journal as he went, later published in 1916 as A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf. Yet he found time for reading and ingenious inventions which gave him an early reputation for brilliance.Īfter attending the University of Wisconsin, Muir pursued his mechanical skills until an industrial accident nearly blinded him. When his family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849, young John was brought up to hard labour on his father's homestead. John Muir (1838–1914) was born and raised in Dunbar, East Lothian. ![]()
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