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The Story of my Boyhood and Youth - (John Muir: The Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books) by John Muir (Paperback)

The Story of my Boyhood and Youth - (John Muir: The Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books) by  John Muir (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, his transition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the concept of protected national parks.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em><strong>The Story of my Boyhood and Youth</strong></em> is the affecting memoir of the now internationally renowned <strong>John Muir</strong>, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, his transition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the concept of protected national parks.</p><p>Born in <strong>East Lothian, Scotland</strong> in 1838, Muir was raised by a fanatically strict, religious father with his numerous brothers and sisters and loving mother. From an early age, a shy Muir showed fascination with the natural world, and at aged eleven, his father announced the family were to move to an American wilderness in Wisconsin - Muir had a new playground.</p><p>His adolescence is spent labouring on the family's grassroots farm. Working seventeen-hour days, an exhausted yet inquisitive Muir desperately snatches moments to himself, yearning to explore the environment around him, secretly studying books on topics other than religion, and rising at 1 a.m. to pursue his hobby of inventing intricate time and energy-saving devices - much to his father's disapproval and everyone else's admiration.</p><p>At age twenty-two, Muir takes it upon himself to apply to university, and does so without financial or moral support from his father. He makes his way to the <strong>University of Wisconsin-Madison</strong> to study chemistry and botany, and though never graduating with a degree, he is satisfied that he had learned all he wanted to there, before completing the rest of his nature education in 'the university of the wilderness'.</p><p><em><strong>The Story of my Boyhood and Youth</strong></em> includes a new foreword by <strong>Terry Gifford</strong>, and offers insight into the development of Muir's spiritual connection with the natural world, and suggests an explanation for his passion for freedom in the wilderness, a stark contrast to the forced rigidity of his early years.</p>

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