Story of My Boyhood and Youth

by JohnMuir (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1965

  $23.12

  Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 1849 1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution s infancy.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.24

  In this moving memoir of an unusual childhood, John Muir recalls his younger days in East Lothian with a startling clarity, depicting a wild boy whose quiet individuality and determination were already emerging. Born in mid nineteenth-century Scotland, Muir was eleven when his fanatically religious father took the family to build a new life in America's vast wilderness. Muir charts their pioneering years in Wisconsin, where his battles for survival powerfully anticipate the extraordinary career which was to follow. They reveal a free spirit who perceived bonds between man and nature that were subtle and far reaching for both.