Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotl∧ the years 1849–1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during ...
This edition has been fully reset and contains all the original illustrations from sketches by the author. Front cover image: John Muir against the backdrop of Mount Muir in the Sierra Nevada of California, named in his honor.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is a stirring autobiography by the great American naturalist, John Muir."When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that...
" -John Muir "No reader of John Muir's account of his boyhood and youth can have closed the book without wishing for a sequel." The Dial "Given with an enthusiasm that makes the volume a diverting bit of reading.
The typescript consists of carbon copies with Muir's handwritten annotations and corrections in pencil, and is incomplete, undated and unsigned. Some of the leaves are torn or stained, but most...
the story of my boyhood and youth From John Muir
This engaging autobiography tells the tale of how Muir made his way to the United States to find his true calling.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir "When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...