This Incomparable Lande

Edited by Lyon, Thomas J.

ISBN 10: 0140144412 / ISBN 13: 9780140144413

Published by Penguin Books, New York, N.Y., USA, 1991

About this Item

This book is in near fine condition. here are corner knocks and the edges show wear but there are no tears or stains. The first part of the book is a history of nature writing and gives an American chronology. The second part of the book is an anthology of American nature writing. There are 21 authors represented including Audubon, Thoreau, Muir, and Rachel Carson. There is a bibliography and an index. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Seller Inventory # 006829

Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Incomparable Lande
• Publisher: Penguin Books, New York, N.Y., USA
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140144412
• ISBN 13: 9780140144413
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Thomas Lyon's splendid anthology offers a powerful synthesis of American ideas on nature, along with a first-rate set of essays of his own on the history of United States naturalism. These essays are alone worth the price of the book; so is Lyon's detailed chronology of events in the natural history of the continent. The anthology proper begins with an excerpt from William Wood's New England's Prospect (1634), a properly awed account of "the kingly lion and the strong-armed bear," moves on to great but little-known naturalist-explorers like William Bartram, John James Audubon, and Thomas Nuttall, and ends with modern giants like Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey. Lyon's enterprise and unfailing good taste has yielded not only a model of literary selection and commentary, but a book that celebrates the best of the North American continent and what there is to protect.