The Norton Book of Nature WritingRobert Finch, John Elder W. W. Norton & Company, 1990 - 921 pages Man's encounter with nature has produced some of the great literature of our time. Darwin's ruminations on the Galapagos Islands, Melville's exploration of the "whiteness of the whale, " and Thoreau's communion with Walden Pond are monuments in the history of writing and thought. "The Norton Book of Nature Writing, " including 125 selections by 94 writers, is the fist definitive and comprehensive collection of the many voices of nature writing which have flourished in English and American over the last two hundred years. |
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 17 |
GILBERT WHITE 17201793 | 31 |
HECTOR ST JOHN de Crèvecoeur 17351813 | 53 |
From Sketches of Eighteenth century America | 61 |
ALEXANDER WILSON 17661813 | 77 |
JOHN LEONARD KNAPP 17671845 | 83 |
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 17711855 | 89 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 17721834 | 95 |
ARCHIE CARR 19091987 | 547 |
WALLACE STEGNER b 1909 | 554 |
JACQUETTA HAWKES b 1910 | 569 |
LEWIS THOMAS b 1913 | 575 |
GAVIN MAXWELL 19141969 | 586 |
JOHN HAY b 1915 | 592 |
THOMAS MERTON 19151968 | 598 |
JOHN GRAVES b 1920 | 607 |
WASHINGTON IRVING 17831859 | 112 |
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 17851851 | 118 |
JOHN CLARE 17931864 | 123 |
GEORGE CATLIN 17961872 | 133 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 18031882 | 144 |
CHARLES DARWIN 18091882 | 158 |
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation | 167 |
CHARLES KINGSLEY 18191875 | 207 |
JOHN RUSKIN 18191900 | 232 |
WALT WHITMAN 18191892 | 238 |
JEAN HENRI FABRE 18231915 | 247 |
JOHN WESLEY POWELL 18341902 | 257 |
SAMUEL CLEMENS 18351910 | 264 |
JOHN MUIR 18381914 | 279 |
The WaterOuzel | 287 |
W H HUDSON 18411922 | 298 |
CLARENCE KING 18421901 | 316 |
HENRY JAMES 18431916 | 326 |
RICHARD JEFFERIES 18481887 | 338 |
MARY AUSTIN 18681934 | 350 |
EDWARD THOMAS 18781917 | 356 |
ROCKWELL KENT 18821971 | 369 |
ISAK DINESEN 18831962 | 375 |
HENRY BESTON 18881968 | 391 |
ALDO LEOPOLD 18881948 | 400 |
GUSTAV ECKSTEIN 18901981 | 422 |
DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE 18981964 | 449 |
E B WHITE 18991985 | 474 |
RENÉ DUBOS 19011982 | 487 |
GEORGE ORWELL 19031950 | 504 |
RACHEL CARSON 19071964 | 519 |
WILLIAM WARNER b 1920 | 613 |
FARLEY MOWAT b 1921 | 621 |
JOHN HAINES b 1924 | 636 |
ANN HAYMOND ZWINGER b 1925 | 642 |
112 | 651 |
J A BAKER b 1926 | 652 |
FRANKLIN RUSSELL b 1926 | 670 |
EDWARD ABBEY 19271989 | 679 |
PETER MATTHIESSEN b 1927 | 692 |
RICHARD SELZER b 1928 | 708 |
URSULA K LE GUIN b 1929 | 715 |
EDWARD O WILSON b 1929 | 722 |
JOHN G MITCHELL b 1931 | 735 |
EDWARD HOAGLAND b 1932 | 744 |
JOHN UPDIKE b 1932 | 759 |
N SCOTT MOMADAY b 1934 | 774 |
SUE HUBBELL b 1935 | 780 |
CHET RAYMO b 1936 | 787 |
ROBERT FINCH b 1943 | 806 |
ANNIE DILLARD b 1945 | 816 |
BARRY LOPEZ b 1945 | 839 |
DAVID RAINS WALLACE b 1945 | 856 |
GRETEL EHRLICH b 1946 | 863 |
ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE b 1947 | 869 |
DAVID QUAMMEN b 1948 | 877 |
VICKI HEARNE b 1952 | 894 |
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS b 1955 | 903 |
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