The Norton Book of Nature Writing

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Robert Finch, John Elder
Norton, 2002 - 1152 pages
The college edition differs from the 1990 original by being paperbound and so within the future financial prospects of English majors; by an expanded table of contents; and by the provision of study apparatus for teachers and students in the separate but included volume . The excerpts range from the 18th century to 2000. Titles and names are indexed.

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About the author (2002)

Robert Finch has lived on Cape Cod for forty years, currently in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He is the author of seven collections of essays, most recently of his radio scripts for his weekly commentary, "A Cape Cod Notebook," on the Cape and Islands NPR Station, WCAI.

John Elder is chair of the environmental studies department at Middlebury College. His books include Reading the Mountains of Home.

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