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UNINA9910969908103321 |
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Autore |
Muir John <1838-1914.> |
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Titolo |
The story of my boyhood and youth / / by John Muir; with a foreword by Vernon Carstensen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1965 |
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9786612555381 |
9781282555389 |
1282555383 |
9780299036539 |
0299036537 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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