Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes (xxiii, 1210 pages)) : illustrations, portraits |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Contents |
v. 1 -- Edward Abbey / Zita Ingham -- Diane Ackerman / David M. Robinson -- Mary Hunter Austin / John P. O'Grady -- Florence Merriam Bailey / Harriet Kofalk -- William Bartram / Philip G. Terrie -- Rick Bass / Terrell F. Dixon -- Wendell Berry / Herman Nibbelink -- Henry Beston / Daniel G. Payne -- John Burroughs / Ralph W. Black -- Sally Carrighar / Gale Lawrence -- Rachel Carson / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Anna Botsford Comstock / Marcia Myers Bonta -- Susan Fenimore Cooper / Lucy B. Maddox -- H.L. Davis / Paul T. Bryant -- Annie Dillard / Don Scheese -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Melissa Walker -- Gretel Ehrlich / Stephanie Kaza -- Virginia Eifert / Karen Knowles -- Loren Eiseley / Fred Taylor -- Ralph Waldo Emerson / Michael P. Branch -- Robert Finch / J. Parker Huber -- John Graves / Mark Busby -- Linda Hasselstrom / Kathleen Danker -- John Hay / Cynthia Huntington -- Edward Hoagland / David W. Teague -- Linda Hogan / Hertha D. Wong -- Helen Hoover / Nancy Freehafer -- Sue Hubbell / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -- John Janovy, Jr. / Steven B. Shively -- Cathy Johnson / Alison R. Byerly -- Josephine Johnson / Vera Norwood -- Diana Kappel-Smith / Karen Knowles -- Joseph Wood Krutch / Stuart C. Brown -- Maxine Kumin / Hilda Raz -- Anne LaBastille / Kate H. Winter -- William Least Heat-Moon / David W. Teague -- Aldo Leopold / Peter A. Fritzell -- Barry Lopez / John Tallmadge -- Faith McNulty / Aina Niemela -- John McPhee / Michael Pearson -- volume 2 -- Pater Matthiessen / Daniel G. Payne -- Enos Mills / John Dotson -- John Hanson Mitchell / Terrell F. Dixon -- N. Scott Momaday / Matthias Schubnell -- John Muir / Thomas J. Lyon -- Gary Paul Nabhan / Sara L. St. Antoine -- Richard K. Nelson / John Tallmadge -- Sigurd F. Olson / John Cooley -- Noel Perrin / Cynthia Huntington -- Brenda Peterson / Lisa Knopp -- Robert Michael Pyle / Michael Pearson -- David Quammen / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Betsy S. Hilbert -- Chet Raymo / Fred Taylor -- Hope Ryden / Sydney Landon Plum -- Scott Russell Sanders / William Nichols -- Ernest Thompson Seton / Lisa Knopp -- Leslie Marmon Silko / Thomas K. Dean -- Gary Snyder / Patrick D. Murphy -- Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher / Marcia Myers Bonta -- Wallace Stegner / Neil B. Carmony -- Gene Stratton Porter / Sydney Landon Plum -- Edwin Way Teale / Stan Tag -- Celia Thaxter / Vera Norwood -- Lewis thomas / Alison R. Byerly -- Henry David Thoreau / Lawrence Buell -- John C. Van Dyke / Peter Wild -- David Rains Wallace / Michael Kowalewski -- Terry Tempest Williams / Lorraine Anderson -- Ann Zwinger / Peter Wild -- African Americas, writing and nature / David Lionel Smith -- Bioregionalism in nature writing / David Robertson -- Canadian nature writing in English / Rebecca Raglon -- Contemporary ecofiction / Nicholas O'Connell -- Early romantic natural history literature (1782-1836) / Michael P. Branch -- The forms of American nature poetry / Christopher Merrill -- Literary theory and nature writing / Michael P. Cohen -- Literature of mountaineering / Mikel Vause -- Modern birdwatching literature / Deborah Strom Gibbons -- Nature in native American literatures / Hertha D. Wong -- New voices in American nature writing / Lorraine Anderson -- Western geologists and explorers: Clarence King and John Wesley Powell / John Tallmadge |
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vol. 1. Edward Abbey to John McPhee -- volume 2. Peter Matthiessen to Western geologists and explorers |
Summary |
Provides a history and criticism of the nature writing genre and biographical and critical essays on individual writers, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, and short story writers |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
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American literature -- Dictionaries.
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Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Natural history -- United States -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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Natural history -- United States -- Historiography -- Dictionaries
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Nature in literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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Nature in literature -- Dictionaries
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Nature writers -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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American literature.
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Authors, American.
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Natural history -- Historiography.
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Natural history.
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Nature in literature.
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Nature writers.
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United States.
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Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Elder, John, 1947-
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ISBN |
0684316021 |
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9780684316024 |
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