"environnement - protection Muir, John (explorateur) Wisconsin (Etats-Unis) 19e s. (milieu)" . . "environnement protection Muir, John (explorateur) Wisconsin (Etats-Unis) 19e s. (milieu)" . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Environmentalists & Naturalists." . . "Conservationists United States Biography." . . "Naturalists Wisconsin Biography." . . "Conservationists Scotland Biography." . . "Naturalists Scotland Biography." . . "Southern States" . . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Real Estate General." . . "Naturalists." . . "Naturalists" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse" . "Story of My Boyhood and Youth" . "Story of My Boyhood and Youth"@en . . . . . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . "The story of my boyhood an youth" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Story of my boyhood and youth, the"@en . "Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Nonfiction, Travel"@en . . . . . . . "The Story of my boyhood and youth" . "The Story of my boyhood and youth"@en . . . . . "The story of my boyhood and youth and A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf" . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . "Story of my boyhood and youth"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "This autobiography traces Muir's ever-growing fondness for wild places and wild creatures. Beginning with his boyhood days in Scotland, he then picks up with his first experiences of America where his family moved in 1849. Muir also describes his early adulthood, when, as he puts it, he left the University of Wisconsin for the University of the Wilderness." . . . "John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the evolution of Muir's scientific curiosity and the beginnings of his reverential attitude towards nature. Treating his encounters with wildlife as high adventure, he gives especially informed attention to bird life in both Scotland and Wisconsin." . "John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the evolution of Muir's scientific curiosity and the beginnings of his reverential attitude towards nature. Treating his encounters with wildlife as high adventure, he gives especially informed attention to bird life in both Scotland and Wisconsin."@en . . . . . . "The story of my boyhood and youth ; and, A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf"@en . . . . . . . . . "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."@en . "The Story of my Boyhood and Youth"@en . "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth"@en . "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth" . . . . . . . . . . "The story of my boyhood and youth"@en . "The story of my boyhood and youth; with illustrations from sketches by the author"@en . "The story of my boyhood and youth" . . . . . . "Electronic resource" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Thousand-mile walk to the Gulf"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Although Sierra Club founder and important early environmentalist John Muir was born in Scotland, he spent much of his life traipsing through the wonders of the American wilderness -- and fighting to protect what he regarded as the country's greatest resource. This engaging autobiography tells the tale of how Muir made his way to the United States to find his true calling."@en . . . . . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "John Muir--pioneer's son, naturalist, inventor extraordinaire--was one of the most fascinating and distinguished figures in American history and one of the country's best-known advocates of land preservation and the establishment of national parks. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is the first volume of John Muir's autobiography and the only part published before he died in 1914. 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." . . . . . . . . . . "\"Although Sierra Club founder and important early environmentalist John Muir was born in Scotland, he spent much of his life traipsing through the wonders of the American wilderness--and fighting to protect what he regarded as the country's greatest resource. This engaging autobiography tells the tale of how Muir made his way to the United States to find his true calling\"--"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21st, 1838. His Father wanted his children to have a stricter Religious upbringing and therefore moved the family to the United States. John Muir is perhaps known today as the most pre-eminent naturalist and advocate for the preservation of much of the western United States. Today being an environmentalist is laudable but in Muir's days the country was there to be exploited but by hard work and lobbying Muir did much to turn such beautiful areas as Yosemite into protected National Parks. His writing is not only an invaluable guidebook to these unspoilt places but also a hymn to their spirituality. As a keen scientific mind he helped to push the understanding of nature forward by observing and writing upon the glaciers and their actions in eroding and shaping much of the land. Muir helped to also create The Sierra Club, which he led for many years, on projects to preserve these and other areas of outstanding natural beauty. He was equally adept at persuading politicians, from Presidents to local State officials, and the common man to come together in the defence of Nature."@en . . . . . . "Conservationists Wisconsin Biography." . . "Naturalists Scotland East Lothian Biography." . . "California" . . "Wisconsin" . . "Geography." . . "Muir, John" . . "Conservationists Scotland East Lothian Biography." . . "Biography." . . "Wisconsin Social life and customs." . . "TRAVEL United States Midwest General." . . "Mu." . . "Frontier and pioneer life Wisconsin." . . "History." . . "Naturalists Biography." . . "Electronic resource." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY General." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General." . "EBSCOhost." . . "Electronic books." . . "Boys Wisconsin." . . "environnement - protection Muir, John (explorateur) Wisconsin (Etats-Unis) 19e s. (milieu) [document]" . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology." . . 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