The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781912476343
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Imprint: Origin
Pub date:
DEWEY: 333.72092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxiii, 136 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 196g
Height: 194mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 13mm