The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by John Muir

Overview

This 1913 autobiography traces Muir's ever-growing fondness for "wild places and wild creatures." Beginning with his boyhood days in Scotland, he then picks up with his first experiences of America—where his family moved in 1849. Muir also describes his early adulthood, when, as he puts it, he left "the University of Wisconsin for the University of the Wilderness."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411449619
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/19/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist.  He founded the Sierra Club.  A fierce advocate of wilderness protection, Muir influenced President Theodore Roosevelt's national park system and, through his passionate, often unabashedly spiritual writings, helped to shape Americans' attitudes toward wilderness preservation and land stewardship.