Signs and Seasons - Softcover

Burroughs, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158963487X ISBN 13: 9781589634879

Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL), 2001

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About the Author:

John Burroughs (1837-1921) emerged from an obscure boyhood in the Catskill Mountains to write more than thirty books, create the genre of the nature essay, and become the preeminent nature writer of his day.

He taught briefly, married, and during the Civil War settled in Washington, D.C. where he obtained a job as a clerk in the Treasury Department. It was during his nine years in Washington that he published his first books. In 1873 he returned to New York State and established his home "Riverby" on the west bank of the Hudson River at West Park. He began fruit farming and continued to write, publishing a new books about every two years.

His prose made widely popular the type of nature essay written by Thoreau. He was a friend of John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other important people. He traveled to the Pacific coast, the South, the West Indies, Europe, and (with the Harriman expedition) Alaska, recording natural phenomena in simple, expressive prose.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 158963487X
• ISBN 13: 9781589634879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280