The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

by John Muir, Vernon Carstensen (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299036546
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	05/15/1965
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John Muir (1838-1914) was a naturalist, author, and an advocate of wilderness preservation. He was the founder of the Sierra Club, and was influential in the creation of many national parks, including Yosemite. He has written many books, including Letters from Alaska, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, and The Yosemite, which were printed by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Table of Contents

Part I.
I. Puget Sound and British Columbia
II. Alexander Archipelago and the Home I found in Alaska
III. Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers
IV. The Stickeen River
V. A Cruise in the Cassiar
VI. The Cassiar Trail
VII. Glenora Peak
VIII. Exploration of the Stickeen Glacier
IX. A Canoe Voyage to Northward
X. The Discovery of Glacier Bay
XI. The Country of the Chilcats
XII. The Return to Fort Wrangell
XIII. Alaska Indians

Part II. The Trip of 1880
XIV. Sum Dum Bay
XV. From Taku River to Taylor Bay
XVI. Glacier Bay
XVII. In Camp at Glacier Bay
XVIII. My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier
XIX. Auroras
Index
Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon

Editorial Reviews

"The richness of Muir's writing roots deeper into the terrain than any other wilderness writer known to me"

Los Angeles Times on MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA

"The great mountain man . . . [John Muir] remains a towering presence in American cultural life, and is internationally acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of modern conservation"

MARK COCKER

"Muir was a geologist, an explorer, philosopher, artist, author, and editor, and to each of his avocations he devoted that deep insight and conscientious devotion which made him its master"

New York Times

"An inspirational figure for modern environmentalism . . . his enthusiasm and heart-felt love of nature is immensely impressive"

Guardian

"A superbly told, moving and challenging story. For anybody remotely interested in the environment, Scottish culture, American history, the art of biography or the art of life, this book is essential"

Scotland on Sunday

"His books are illuminated by sunshine and starlight . . . No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world as Muir, or communicates that astonishment more urgently"

ROBERT MACFARLANE