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The story of my boyhood and youth / by John Muir; with a foreword by Vernon Carstensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muir, John, 1838-1914.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naturalists--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- Muir, John, 1838-1914.
- Muir, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, c1965.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 1849-1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution's infancy.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- I. A Boyhood in Scotland
- II. A New World
- III. Life on a Wisconsin Farm
- IV. A Paradise of Birds
- V. Young Hunters
- VI. The Ploughboy
- VII. Knowledge and Inventions
- VIII. The World and the University.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612555381
- 9781282555389
- 1282555383
- 9780299036539
- 0299036537
- OCLC:
- 748212249
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