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Title

  • The story of my boyhood and youth,

Summary

  • 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.

Names

  • Muir, John, 1838-1914.

Created / Published

  • Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.

Headings

  • -  Muir, John,--1838-1914--Childhood and youth
  • -  Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin
  • -  Wisconsin--Social life and customs
  • -  Conservationists--United States--Biography
  • -  Naturalists--United States--Biography
  • -  Boys--Wisconsin

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • v, [1] p., 1 l., 293, [1] p., 1 l. front. (port.) plates. 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QH31.M9 A35

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 13005573

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Muir, John. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/13005573/.

APA citation style:

Muir, J. (1913) The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/13005573/.

MLA citation style:

Muir, John. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/13005573/>.