Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Wisconsin, Wisconsin -- Social life and customs, Naturalists -- United States -- Biography, Conservationists -- United States -- Biography, Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Childhood and youth, QH, I
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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.
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