Sweet Muse: Lessons in Manliness: Millican Dalton

At the age of thirty six, Millican gave up a stifling city job to embrace a life of adventure. As he told a correspondent of The Sunday Chronicle in 1933, “Forty years ago I was working as a clerk in a city office. .... When Millican died in hospital in 1947, a book lay uncompleted by his bedside. Titled “Philosophy of Life,” it was his journal of observations based on thirty years living in the wilderness. Sadly, the book remains lost to this day. ...