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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

Society EN ↓ 8 episodes

“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...

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Jan 2, 2026

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Episodes

01 – A Boyhood in Scotland 02.01.2026

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02 – A New World 01.01.2026

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03 – Life on a Wisconsin Farm 31.12.2025

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04 – A Paradise of Birds 30.12.2025

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05 – Young Hunters 29.12.2025

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06 – The Ploughboy 28.12.2025

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07 – Knowledge and Inventions 27.12.2025

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08 – The World and the University 26.12.2025

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