The Story of my Boyhood and Youth & A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir

Raised in an extremely strict Scottish Calvinistic home, Muir became a naturalist and something of a pantheist. In Scotland he memorized the entire New Testament and "most" of the Old Testament. He was a genius inventor, making clocks of wood. He walked from Louisville to the Florida gulf coast, sometimes in danger from robbers and crocodiles, sleeping outdoors, swimming rivers, eschewing roads and bridges. An amazing account of an amazing, tough, brilliant man.