The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

by John Muir (1838-1914)

“The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box
about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep - scant space for
three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all the family of
ten shivered, and beneath which in the morning we found our socks and
coarse, soggy boots frozen solid.” Thus, with perceptive eye for detail, the
American naturalist, John Muir, describes life on a pioneer Wisconsin farm
in the 1850’s. Muir was only eleven years old when his father uprooted the
family from a relatively comfortable life in Dunbar, Scotland, to settle in the
backwoods of North America.

How John Muir made his way from that Wisconsin farm to become the great
American naturalist, spokesman for Yosemite and the California redwoods,
is the stuff of legend: which makes Muir’s autobiographical account of his
early boyhood a fascinating read.

Total running time: 5:24:54
Read by Sue Anderson

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Mechanical projects designed by Muir as a youth, in the public domain
from first edition

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