Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-476) and index.
Contents
A taxonomy of nature writing -- An American chronology -- The American setting -- Beginnings -- The age of Thoreau, Muir, and Burroughs -- Modern developments -- William Wood (flourished 1629-1635) -- William Bartram (1739-1823) -- Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) -- John D. Godman (1794-1830) -- John James Audubon (1785-1851) -- Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- John Muir (1838-1914) -- John Burroughs (1837-1921) -- Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) -- Henry Beston (1888-1968) -- Donald Culross Peattie (1898-1964) -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) -- Peter Matthiessen (1927- ) -- Edward Hoagland (1932- ) -- Annie Dillard (1945- ) -- Edward Abbey (1927- ) -- Wendell Berry (1934- ) -- John Haines (1924- ) -- Barry Lopez (1945- ) -- John Hay (1915- ).
