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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth By John Muir

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir


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Summary

Born in mid nineteenth-century Scotland, the author was eleven when his fanatically religious father took the family to build a new life in America's vast wilderness. A memoir of an unusual childhood, here, he recalls his younger days in East Lothian.

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Summary

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

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.

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Reviews

'A superbly told, moving and challenging story. For anybody remotely interested in the environment, Scottish culture, American history, the art of biography or the art of life, this book is essential'

* Scotland on Sunday *

About John Muir

Relatively unknown in his native Scotland, John Muir is renowned in the United States as the father of conservation. A friend of presidents and founder of National Parks, Muir was inspired by a love and a vision of nature as remarkable today as it was last century.

Additional information

GOR007291946
9781780271279
1780271271
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Birlinn General
2013-06-17
168
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