The  story of my boyhood and youth
By: by John Muir; with illustrations from sketches by the author.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company
Published: 1913
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Muir, John, /U+01c2/d 1838-1914 -- Childhood and youth.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Wisconsin.
Description: 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.