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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969908103321

Autore

Muir John <1838-1914.>

Titolo

The story of my boyhood and youth / / by John Muir; with a foreword by Vernon Carstensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1965

ISBN

9786612555381

9781282555389

1282555383

9780299036539

0299036537

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

508.092

Soggetti

Naturalists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.