GREAT AMERICAN NATURE WRITING : Selected with Commentary

Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/NF. DJ/VG; price clipped; w/light edge wear, small loss to upper spine edge & showing discoloration; under mylar. Discoloration to endpapers. Anthology of distinctive nature writing after the 17th century as an identifiable genre. The word "American" in the tile is used in the sense that it is essentially an American mode of writing for selections include writings of British writers Ernest Thompson Seton and G. Murray Levick as well. Compiled with commentaries by drama critic, book reviewer, and author Jospeh Wood Krutch (1898 - 1970), himself an outstanding writer of nature, with illustrations by Rudolf Freund rendered in a pleasing green. Thematically, the anthology is arranged: I, Thoreau & the Theoreauists; II, Escape from the Commonplace; III, Lives of the Hunted; IV, Two Legs Too Many; V, Majesty of the Inanimate; and VI, Mystery of Creation.