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Summary Of My First Summer In The Sierra By John Muir

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“My First Summer In The Sierra” written by John Muir, is a book that was published 1911 and was written in 1869. It was a book, describing what it was to have a spiritual awakening and to be one with nature. It’s about bringing awareness to the national parks we have today and to learn more about how they came to be what they are today.
John Muir was born April 21, 1838, in Dunbar, Scotland. Until the age of eleven he attended the local schools of that small coastal town. In 1849, the Muir family emigrated to the United States, settling first at Fountain Lake and then moving to Hickory Hill Farm near Portage, Wisconsin. He traveled all around the world, his curiosity took him to Alaska, Australia, South America, Africa, Europe, China, Japan,
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