Global Muir
We offer here pages featuring links about the geography of John Muir – around the world.
Born in Scotland, he emigrated to Wisconsin as an 11 year old boy.
He sojourned in Canada for two years, then set out to go to the Amazon. Waylaid by illness in Florida, he went to California, and traveled to Alaska many times. He visited forests and parks in dozens of U.S. states.
He later traveled to all continents of the world (except Antarctica).
Non-English Translations
Muir’s books have been translated into a multitude of languages, and in recent years there are an increasing number of biographies about him written in languages other than English. We plan to list more of these over time on this site.
- John Muir en Francais
- John Muir auf Deutsch
Mori no seija: Shezenhogo no chichi John Muir (A Saint in the Forest: the Father of Nature Protection – John Muir) (offsite-link to Yale University)
by Noriyushi, Kato. (Tokyo: Yama-to-keikohusha, 1995). 279 pp. ¥1600
A modern introduction to John Muir, in Japanese, for the Japanese audience
Places
Places – This is our exhaustive list of dozens of important places around the world that JohnMuir visited or which have been named for him.
In addition to the lengthy list above, we feature some of the most important places below: