The story of my boyhood and youth

Annotation Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 18491860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution's infancy 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. - Summary from American Memory site. Contents......Page 18 Foreword......Page 6 I. A Boyhood in Scotland......Page 22 II. A New World......Page 64 III. Life on a Wisconsin Farm......Page 95 IV. A Paradise of Birds......Page 134 V. Young Hunters......Page 158 VI. The Ploughboy......Page 182 VII. Knowledge and Inventions......Page 215 VIII. The World and the University......Page 236 John Muir ; Introduced By Frank Tindall. Originally Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1913. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.