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Home   /   Books   /   A Natural History of Nature Writing
A Natural History of Nature Writing
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A Natural History of Nature Writing

302 pages
6 x 9

Frank Stewart

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$41.99
ISBN: 
9781610912471
Pub Date: 
July 2012
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Book Description

A Natural History of Nature Writing is a penetrating overview of the origins and development of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the most prominent American nature writers of the19th and 20th centuries, including:

  • Henry D. Thoreau, the father of American nature writing.
  • John Burroughs, a schoolteacher and failed businessman who found his calling as a writer and elevated the nature essay to a loved and respected literary form.
  • John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, who celebrated the wilderness of the Far West as few before him had.
  • Aldo Leopold, a Forest Service employee and scholar who extended our moral responsibility to include all animals and plants.
  • Rachel Carson, a scientist who raised the consciousness of the nation by revealing the catastrophic effects of human intervention on the Earth's living systems.
  • Edward Abbey, an outspoken activist who charted the boundaries of ecological responsibility and pushed these boundaries to political extremes.
Stewart highlights the controversies ignited by the powerful and eloquent prose of these and other writers with their expansive – and often strongly political – points of view. Combining a deeply-felt sense of wonder at the beauty surrounding us with a rare ability to capture and explain the meaning of that beauty, nature writers have had a profound effect on American culture and politics. A Natural History of Nature Writing is an insightful examination of an important body of American literature.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue
 
Chapter 1. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtledove
Chapter 2. Timothy the Tortoise
Chapter 3. The Pout's Nest and the Painter's Eye
Chapter 4. The Labor of The Bees
Chapter 5. The Woodcock's Leg
Chapter 6. Mountain Self
Chapter 7. In the Eye of the Wolf
Chapter 8. Small Winged Forms above the Sea
Chapter 9. The Moon-Eyed Horse
Chapter 10. Writing the Wild
 
Notes
Bibliography And Further Readings
Index

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