Son of the Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe
Son of the Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe
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Son of the Wilderness
The Life of John Muir

Author: Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Narrator: James Armstrong

Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/16/2012

Synopsis

All who have admired John Muirs ruggedly individualistic lifestyle, or who desire a greater appreciation of the history of environmental preservation in America, will be enthralled and enlightened by this Pulitzer Prizewinning biography. Following Muir from his ancestral home in Scotland, through his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, to his historic pilgrimage to California, Linnie Marsh Wolfe creates a full and rounded portrait of her subjectnot only as Americas firebrand conservationist and founder of the national park system but as a committed husband, father, and friend. Muir was a multifaceted character, shaped as much by his stern and liberty-loving Scottish heritage as by his love of all things wild and free. His battles against the encroachment of civilization were actually born of his love for it, for he was one of the few to realize that the destruction of the wilderness would diminish man himself. This book, originally published in 1945 and based in large part on Wolfes personal interviews with people who knew and worked with Muir, is one that could never be written again. It is, and will remain, the standard Muir biography.

About Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1881–1945) worked as both a teacher and a public librarian in California. She also edited John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on February 11, 2020

Have you ever gotten trapped in a conversation with a child? There’s a really specific situation I’m thinking about. Where the youngin’ is really excited about something that has happened. Let’s say a birthday. And since children typically don’t understand compelling storytelling, everything remotel......more

Goodreads review by James on December 05, 2016

I purchased Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir while vacationing in Northern California. I found it in the gift shop at Muir Woods National Park, a place I recommend everyone visit. The book is a well-written, thoughtful biography of one of America's greatest conservationists. The author c......more

Goodreads review by Anthony M Skelly on August 17, 2020

I’m not sure what I found more irritating - the flowery language of the book, or the narrator’s intonations of that language on the audiobook I listened to. Don’t even get me started on the narrator’s insufferable Scottish accents. Nevertheless, the narrative flow of the book is consistent with the......more

Goodreads review by Jason on April 21, 2017

The telling of John Muir's life is one of the most engrossing non-fiction books I've read; watching his whole life unfold from a young hardworking genius to a stalwart mountain man dedicated to the wilderness and his family. By the end, you feel like you could have known him and his death still sadd......more

Goodreads review by Tom on May 14, 2022

John Muir, famous as a U.S. naturalist, first came to my attention as a youthful philatelist through the 1964 five-cent stamp I collected. Muir was one the of the first Americans to realize that forests should be protected by government decree though I didn't then see him more as "a parks guy." In......more

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