The story of my boyhood and youth
Muir, John, 1838-19141987
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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
Main title:
The story of my boyhood and youth / John Muir ; introduced by Frank Tindall.
Author:
Muir, John, 1838-1914, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 1987, c1913.
Collation:
(160) pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Canongate classics
Notes:
Originally published, Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1913.
ISBN:
086241153X9780862411534
Dewey class:
977.5030924920MUI920 MUI973
LC class:
F586
Local class:
920920 MUI977.5
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
WisconsinFrontier lifeca 1840-1860Personal observationsJohn MuirLocalHistoryDunbarL5287PIONEER LIFEUNITED STATES OF AMERICAWISCONSIN
BRN:
393130