Nature Writing
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Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968).
_______________, Down the River (New York: Dutton, 1982).
_______________, The Journey Home (New York: Dutton, 1977).
_______________, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975).
_______________, Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader
(New York: Dutton, 1984). Reprinted as The Best of Edward Abbey, ed. Edward Abbey (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988).
Mary Austin, Land of Little Rain (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903).
William Bartram, Travels through North and South Carolina (Philadelphia: Printed by James & Johnson, 1791).
Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988).
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977).
Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929).
John Burroughs, The Complete Nature Writings of John Burroughs (New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1904-1921).
David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992).
Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us (New York: Oxford University Press, 1951).
Charles Darwin,Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859, ed. Frederick Burkhardt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
_______________, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy (London: J. Murray, 1845).
V. G. Dethier, Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974).
_______________, Teaching a Stone to Talk (New York: Harper & Row, 1982).
Dan Duane, Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1996).
René Dubos, The Wooing of Earth: New Perspectives on Man's Use of Nature (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980).
Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home (New York: Viking, 1991).
_______________, The Solace of Open Spaces (New York: Viking, 1985).
Loren C. Eiseley, The Firmament of Time (New York: Atheneum, 1960).
_______________, The Immense Journey (New York: Random House, 1957).
_______________, Starthrower (New York: Times Books, 1978).
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. William H. Gilman et al. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960-1982).
_______________, Nature (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836).
Robert Finch, Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod (Boston: D. R. Godine, 1981).
_______________, Outlands: Journeys to the Outer Edges of Cape Cod (Boston: D. R. Godine, 1986).
_______________, The Primal Place (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983).
Alan Gurney, Below the Convergence: Voyages toward Antarctica, 1699-1839 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997).
Vicki Hearne, Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name (New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1986).
Bernd Heinrich, The Trees in My Forest (New York: Cliff Street Books, 1997).
Edward Hoagland, Balancing Acts: Essays (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992).
_______________, The Edward Hoagland Reader, ed. Geoffrey Wolff (New York: Random House, 1979).
Tom Horton, Bay Country (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
Sue Hubbell, From a Country Year: Living the Questions (New York: Random House, 1986).
John Janovy, Jr., Back in Keith County (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981).
_______________, Dunwoody Pond: Reflections on the High Plains Wetlands and the Cultivation of Naturalists (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
_______________, Keith County Journal (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
_______________, Vermillion Sea (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992).
Peter Kalm, Travels into North America (London: The Editor, 1770-71).
Lawrence Kilham, On Watching Birds (Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1988).
Clarence King, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872).
Joseph Wood Krutch, The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch (New York: Morrow, 1969).
_______________, The Desert Year (New York: Sloane, 1952).
_______________, The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation (New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1955).
Anne LaBastille, Beyond Black Bear Lake (New York: Norton, 1987).
_______________, Women and Wilderness (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980).
_______________, Woodswoman (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976).
Aldo Leopold, The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, ed. Susan Flader and J. Baird Callicott (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991).
_______________, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949).
Peter Loewer, Thoreau's Garden: Native Plants for the American Landscape (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996).
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (New York: Scribner's, 1986).
_______________, Crossing Open Ground (New York: Scribner, 1988).
_______________, Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven (Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, 1976).
_______________, Of Wolves and Men (New York: Scribner, 1978).
George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature; or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (New York: Scribner, 1864).
Robert Marshall, Arctic Village (New York: H. Smith and R. Haas, 1933).
Peter Matthiessen, The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (New York: Viking Press, 1961).
_______________, Sand Rivers (New York: Viking Press, 1981).
_______________, The Snow Leopard (New York: Viking Press, 1978).
John A. McPhee, Coming into the Country (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1977).
_______________, The Control of Nature (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989).
_______________, Encounters with the Archdruid (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971).
_______________, The John McPhee Reader, ed. William L. Howarth (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976).
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1969).
Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963).
_______________, People of the Deer (Boston: Little, Brown, 1952).
John Muir, The Mountains of California (New York: The Century Press, 1894).
_______________, My First Summer in the Sierra (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911).
_______________, Travels in Alaska (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915).
_______________, The Yosemite (New York: Century, 1912).
Gary Paul Nabhan, The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982).
_______________, Gathering the Desert (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1985).
Richard Nelson, Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America (New York: Knopf, 1997).
_______________,The Island Within (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989).
_______________, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Kenneth S. Norris, Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin (New York: Norton, 1991).
Donald Culross Peattie, An Almanac for Moderns (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935).
Robert F. Perkins, Into the Great Solitude: An Arctic Journey (New York: H. Holt, 1991).
Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991).
John Wesley Powell, Report on the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875).
_______________, Selected Prose of John Wesley Powell, ed. George Crossette (Boston: D. R. Godine, 1970).
Robert Michael Pyle, The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993).
_______________, Wintergreen: Listening to the Land's Heart (New York: Scribner's, 1986).
David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder (New York: Scribner, 2000).
_______________, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (New York: Delacorte Press, 1988).
_______________, Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (New York: Delacorte Press, 1988).
_______________, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions (New York: Scribner's, 1996).
Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999).
Paul Shepard, The Only World We've Got: A Paul Shepard Reader, ed. Paul Shepard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996).
Gary Snyder, A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1995).
_______________, The Practice of the Wild: Essays (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990).
Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954).
Edwin Way Teale, Adventures in Nature: Selections from the Outdoor Writings of Edwin Way Teale (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1959).
_______________, Autumn across America: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American Autumn (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956).
John C. Van Dyke, The Desert: Further Studies on Natural Appearances (London: Sampson, Low Marston, 1901).
David Rains Wallace, The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1978).
_______________, Idle Weeds: The Life of a Sandstone Ridge (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980).
_______________, The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983).
Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (London: H. G. Bohn, 1851).
David Wicinas, Sagebrush and Cappuccino: Confessions of an LA Naturalist (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995).
Terry Tempest Williams, Desert Quartet (New York: Pantheon Books, 1995).
_______________, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991).
_______________, An Unspoken Hunger (New York: Pantheon Books, 1994).
Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984).
_______________, The Diversity of Life (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992).
_______________, In Search of Nature (Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1996).
_______________, On Human Nature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978).
Louise B. Young, The Blue Planet (Boston: Little, Brown, 1983).
_______________, Earth's Aura (New York: Knopf, 1977).
_______________, Sowing the Wind: Reflections on the Earth's Atmosphere (New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1990).
_______________, The Unfinished Universe (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986).
Ann Zwinger, Beyond the Aspen Grove (New York: Random House, 1970).
_______________, Down Canyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1995).
_______________, Mysterious Lands: An Award-Winning Naturalist Explores the Four Great Deserts of the Southwest (New York: Dutton, 1989).
_______________, Run River Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the American West (New York: Harper and Row, 1975).
Ann Zwinger and Edwin Way Teale, A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau's Rivers (New York: Harper and Row, 1982).
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Compiled by Louisa Dennis, with additions by Thoreau Edition staff.
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