The Story of My Boyhood And Youth

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John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the evolution of Muir’s scientific curiosity and the beginnings of his reverential attitude towards nature. Treating his encounters with wildlife as high adventure, he gives especially informed attention to bird life in both Scotland and Wisconsin. - Summary from American Memory site.

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Other Editions

• The Story of My Boyhood And YouthPaperbackBirlinn Publishers2006-10-30
• The story of my boyhood and youthMicroformHoughton Mifflin1913-01-01
• The story of my boyhood and youthHoughton Mifflin company1913-01-01
• The story of my boyhood and youthHoughton Mifflin Co.1938-01-01
• The story of my boyhood and youth.University of Wisconsin Press1965-01-01
• The story of my boyhood and youthUniversity of Wisconsin Press1965-01-01