Story of my Boyhood and Youth
In this moving memoir of an unusual childhood, John Muir recalls his younger days in East Lothian with a startling clarity, depicting a wild boy whose quiet individuality and determination were already emerging. Born in mid nineteenth-century Scotland, Muir was eleven when his fanatically religious father took the family to build a new life in America's vast wilderness. Muir charts their pioneering years in Wisconsin, where his battles for survival powerfully anticipate the extraordinary career which was to follow. They reveal a free spirit who perceived bonds between man and nature that were subtle and far reaching for both. With an introduc…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85790-610-6
- EAN: 9780857906106
- Produktnummer: 14983859
- Verlag: Birlinn General
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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