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The Norton book of nature writing
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From the Book - First edition.
From "The natural history and antiquities of Selborne" / Gilbert White --
From "Letters from an American farmer"; from "Sketches of eighteenth century America" / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur --
From "Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida" / William Bartram --
From "American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States" / Alexander Wilson --
From "The journal of a naturalist" / John Leonard Knapp --
From "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" / Dorothy Wordsworth --
From "Anima Poetae" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
From "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles" / Charles Waterton.
From "A tour on the prairies" / Washington Irving --
From "Ornithological biography" / John James Audubon --
From "The natural world"; from "The natural history prose writings of John Clare" / John Clare --
From "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians" / George Catlin --
From "Nature"; from "The journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson" / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
From "Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"; from "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"; from "The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex:"/ Charles Darwin --
From "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers"; From "Walden : or, life in the woods"; "Walking"; from "The Maine woods"; from "Journals" / Henry David Thoreau.
From "Glaucus; or, the wonders of the shore" / Charles Kingsley --
From "Moby-Dick; or, the whale" / Herman Melville --
From "Modern painters" / John Ruskin --
From "Specimen days and collect" / Walt Whitman --
From "The life of the grasshopper" / Jean Henri Fabre --
From "The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise" / Alfred Russel Wallace --
From "Exploration of the Colorado River of the west and its tributaries" / John Wesley Powell --
From "Life on the Mississippi" / Samuel Clemens --
"In Mammoth Cave"; "The gospel of nature" / John Burroughs --
"A wind-storm in the forests"; "The water-ouzel" / John Muir --
"My friend the pig"; from "Idle days in Patagonia"; from "Birds and man"; from "Afoot in England"; from "A traveller in little things" / W.H. Hudson.
From "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" / Clarence King --
From "The American scene" / Henry James --
From "Notebooks and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins" / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
"Out of doors in February"; "Absence of design in nature" / Richard Jefferies --
From "The land of little rain" / Mary Austin --
From "The south country" / Edward Thomas --
From "N by E" / Rockwell Kent --
"The death of the moth" / Virginia Woolf --
From "Out of Africa" / Isak Dinesen --
"Flowery Tuscany" / D.H. Lawrence --
From "The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod" / Henry Beston --
From "A Sand County almanac" / Aldo Leopold --
"Two lives" / Gustav Eckstein --
"Love in the desert"; "The colloid and the crystal" / Joseph Wood Krutch --
From "An almanac for moderns" / Donald Culross Peattie --
"Northern lights" / Sigurd Olson --
"The lost woods"; "The Selborne Nightingale" / Edwin Way Teale.
"A slight sound at evening" / E.B. White --
"The ancient people and the newly come" / Meridel LeSueur --
From "The wooing of earth" / Rene Dubos --
From "A river runs through it" / Norman Maclean --
From "The grapes of wrath"; from "The log from the Sea of Cortez" / John Steinbeck --
"Some thoughts on the common toad" / George Orwell --
From "The heart of the hunter" / Laurens Van Der Post --
"The snakes are about" / T.H. White --
From "The edge of the sea" / Rachel Carson --
"The judgment of the birds"; "The star thrower" / Loren Eiseley --
From "The windward road" / Archie Carr --
"Glen Canyon Submersus"; "Coda : wilderness letter" / Wallace Stegner --
From "A land" / Jacquetta Hawkes --
"Antaeus in Manhattan"; "Death in the open"; "The world's biggest membrane"; "The Tucson Zoo" / Lewis Thomas.
From "Ring of bright water" / Gavin Maxwell --
From "The run"; from "In defense of nature" / John Hay --
"Rain and rhinoceros" / Thomas Merton --
"From "Goodbye to a river" / John Graves --
From "Beautiful swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay" / William Warner --
From "Never cry wolf"; from "People of the deer" / Farley Mowat --
"Moments and journey" / John Haines --
From "The mysterious lands" / Ann Haymond Zwinger --
From "The Peregrine" / J.A. Baker --
From "The tree" / John Fowles --
From "The secret islands" / Franklin Russell --
From "Desert solitaire"' "The great American desert" / Edward Abbey --
From "The tree where man was born"; from "The wind birds" / Peter Matthiessen --
"Skin" / Richard Selzer --
"A very warm mountain" / Ursula K. Le Guin --
From "Biophilia" / Edward O. Wilson.
From "Coming into the country"; "Under the snow" / John McPhee --
From "The hunt" / John G. Mitchell --
"Hailing the elusory mountain lion"; "Thoughts on returning to the city after five months on a mountain where the wolves howled" / Edward Hoagland --
"Spring rain"; "Eclipse" / John Updike --
"An entrance to the woods" / Wendell Berry --
From "The way to Rainy Mountain" / N. Scott Momaday --
From "A country year" / Sue Hubbell --
"The silence" / Chet Raymo --
"The gifts" / Richard K. Nelson --
"What the stones said" / Robert Finch --
"Dreaming elands" / Peter Steinhart --
From "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"; "Total eclipse" / Annie Dillard --
From "Arctic dreams"; "The raven" / Barry Lopez --
From "The Klamath Knot" / David Rains Wallace --
From "The solace of open spaces" / Gretel Ehrlich --
From "Wintergreen : listening to the land's heart" / Robert Michael Pyle --
"Animal rights and beyond" / David Quammen.
"Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination" / Leslie Marmon Silko --
From "Adam's task : calling animals by name" / Vicki Hearne --
From "The desert smells like rain : a naturalist in Papago Indian country" / Gary Paul Nabhan --
"In the country of grasses" / Terry Tempest Williams.
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9780393978162
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9780393946345
9780393978155
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