Signs and Seasons: John Burroughs - Softcover

Burroughs, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815608756 ISBN 13: 9780815608752

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Renowned as a pioneer of the new school of nature writing and among the most widely read authors of his time, John Burroughs has had a profound influence on our appreciation of nature. Signs and Seasons, originally published in 1886, provides an excellent introduction to the extensive work of one of America's great writers. Because the essays were collected and arranged by Burroughs himself, they offer a synoptic view of his complex and many-sided genius. Signs and Seasons covers a wide range of Burroughs’s interests, including plants and animals, the wilderness, pastoral landscapes, and the methods and goals of the naturalist.

An authoritative new introduction by Jeff Walker makes Burroughs’s work relevant to the twenty-first century, not only through Burroughs’s excellent natural history writing but also through his beliefs about community, sustainability, and social justice. Additional notes give historical and scientific context for each essay and offer the reader fresh insight into his work. Walker’s intimate knowledge of the Hudson River valley, Riverby, and Slabsides, the areas about which Burroughs writes, reveals sympathy for, and understanding of, Burroughs’s work. This edition will be indispensable to the devotee of John Burroughs’s writing and to a new generation of environmental reader.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Walker is an associate professor of geology and environmental studies at Vassar College. He lives in Hyde Park, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0815608756
• ISBN 13: 9780815608752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Walker Jeff