An important protector of the American wilderness, John Muir
emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1849 and became a
widely sought expert in botany, glaciers, and forestry. He also
gained renown during his life as an explorer, naturalist, and
conservationist. Best known for his long association with the
Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Muir
also explored the southern states, Alaska, the Great Basin, and the
Mojave Desert, and traveled around the world studying nature.
Constantly at odds with powerful political and financial
interests, he was instrumental in creating federal protection for
forests as well as the establishment and expansion of national
parks. The wars he waged are still being fought and the threats to
the environment he encountered are as real today as they were in
his time. Muir's ideas are still relevant to the lives of
Americans. Muir is remembered as the founder of the Sierra Club,
the father of America's conservation movement, and the architect of
an ever growing environmental ethic. Larry Fahn, president of the
Sierra Club, has called Rod Miller's biography, "a fascinating new
take on a true American icon. John Muir comes alive again in Rod
Miller's "Magnificent Tramp.""
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