Reading Nature (Paperback)

Paperback. Reading Nature highlights the ten books that most influenced the scope and direction of literary natural history in the United States. It explores how American nature writing came to focus on the deep observation of wild landscapes and how the genre evolved over 163 years, beginning with the publication of Henry David Thoreaus Walden in 1854. The volume also examines Mary Austins Land of Little Rain (1903), John Burroughss Ways of Nature (1905), Aldo Leopolds A Sand County Almanac (1949), Rachel Carsons The Sea around Us (1951), Edward Abbeys Desert Solitaire (1968), Annie Dillards Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), Terry Tempest Williamss Refuge (1991), Robin Wall Kimmerers Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), and J. Drew Lanhams The Home Place (2016). This book features a series of close readings exploring how these authors transformed popular understanding of the natural world. Reading Nature highlights the ten books that most influenced the scope and direction of literary natural history in the United States, exploring how American nature writing came to focus on the deep observation of wild landscapes. It explores how nature writing evolved over 163 years, beginning with the publication of Thoreaus Walden in 1854. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…