RR 2008/308 Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia

摘要

The American in the title is the location rather than the citizenship of the 53 writers whose works documented (sometimes elegantly) the natural world in North America during the 300 years prior to 1926. Most wrote in the nineteenth century but from Francis Higginson's account of New-Englands Plantation. Or, a Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of the Countrey in 1629, nature writing became part of American literature. The short biographies of this wonderfully eclectic group of writers offer enticing reasons to read their notable works and follow the paths of the references to learn more about them. The entries vary in length, usually six to ten pages, with an occasional outlier like Henry Thoreau with 23