SUMMER READS: WATCH chair Lauriston Muirhead learnt independence from childhood books

Janet Howie
Updated January 1 2020 - 10:21am, first published 10:00am
EARLY LESSONS: The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore was one of many Ernest Thompson Seton works written in the early 1900s that guided Table Top's Lauriston Muirhead through boyhood. With ideas ahead of their time, the books remain precious to Mr Muirhead. Picture: MARK JESSER
EARLY LESSONS: The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore was one of many Ernest Thompson Seton works written in the early 1900s that guided Table Top's Lauriston Muirhead through boyhood. With ideas ahead of their time, the books remain precious to Mr Muirhead. Picture: MARK JESSER

These books are incredibly formative and they've almost sort of, not dictated, but they've formed some of the stones in the river of life that I've bumped along amongst

- Lauriston Muirhead

Lauriston Muirhead probably would always have loved the outdoors, but a series of childhood books certainly had an influence.

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Janet Howie

Janet Howie

Deputy Editor - The Border Mail

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