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New England nature : centuries of writing on the wonder and beauty of the land, David K. Leff and Eric D. Lehman
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- Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it's the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and culture in a relatively small, six-state region. Maybe it's the regenerative powers of the ecosystem in a place of repeated exploitations. Or maybe we have simply been thinking about our relationship with the natural world longer than everyone. If all successive nature writing is a footnote to Henry David Thoreau, then New England has a strong claim to being the birthplace of the genre. But there are, as the sixty entries in this anthology demonstrate, many other regional voices that extol the wonders and beauty of the outdoors, explore local ecology, and call for environmental sustainability. Between these covers, Noah Webster calls for our stewardship of nature and Lydia Sigourney finds sublime pleasure in it. Jonathan Edwards and Helen Keller both find miracles, while Samuel Peters and Mark Twain find humor. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne discovers a place to hide his metaphors, while the enslaved James Mars discovers an actual hiding place. Through it all is the apprehension of a profound and lasting splendor, "the glory of physical nature," as W.E.B. Dubois calls it, something beyond our everyday concerns and yet tied so closely to our daily lives that we cannot escape it. Nature writing cultivates our sense of beauty, inflaming curiosity and the passion to explore. It opens us to deep, primal experiences that enrich life. Anyone wanting to understand our relationship with the world must start here.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 258 pages
- Contents
-
- Of the Rainbow (1710s)
- Gifford Pinchot
- The Seeing Hand (1908)
- Hellen Keller
- Starkfield (1911)
- Edith Wharton
- Ipswich Shore (1913)
- Charles Wendell Townsend
- Landscape Painting (1914)
- Henry Ward Ranger
- Mount Hope (1915)
- Jonathan Edwards
- Clifton Johnson
- Spring Day (1916)
- Amy Lowell
- The White Mountains (1917)
- Louise C. Hale
- The Queen of the Swamp (1920)
- Walter Prichard Eaton
- Ascutney (1920)
- Percy Goldthwait Stiles
- The Beauty of the World (1920)
- Frogs and Caterpillars (1781)
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Introduction, Review of Present Conditions and Recommendations for the Future (1921)
- Frederic C. Walcott
- Samuel Peters
- River Caves (1800)
- Timothy Dwight
- Account of a Meteor (1810)
- Benjamin Silliman
- Domestic Economy (1817)
- Noah Webster
- Introduction /
- The Whale's Revenge (1821)
- Owen Chase
- Excursion from Providence to Bristol (1840)
- Charles T. Jackson
- Ktaadn (1848)
- Henry David Thoreau
- The Great Stone Face (1850)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nature (1850)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- New England: Gateway to American Nature Writing
- Descriptive and Physical Geography (1853)
- Zadock Thompson
- Pleasure of Winter (1854)
- Lydia Sigourney
- he Fairy Flower (1854)
- Lousia May Alcott
- Sounds of Inanimate Nature (1857)
- Wilson Flagg
- Katahdin (1863)
- Theodore Winthrop
- Penobscot to Cape Cod (1616)
- Water Lilies (1863)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Destructiveness of Man (1864)
- George Perkins Marsh
- Hiding in the Woods (1864)
- James Mars -- Advertising in Nature (1865)
- P.T. Barnum
- Natural History (1866)
- James Gates Percival
- A Good Word for Winter (1871)
- John Smith
- James Russell Lowell
- Elm Trees (1873)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Bird and Lighthouse (1873)
- Celia Thaxter
- Bluefish off Nantucket (1875)
- Samuel Adams Drake
- New England Weather (1876)
- Mark Twain
- The Sugar Camp (1877)
- Hurrican and Earthquake (1651)
- Charles Dudley Warner
- Going A-Chestnutting (1878)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Sea Urchins (1879)
- Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
- Hunting for Nests (1880)
- Amanda Bartlett Harris
- Hunting and Trapping (1882)
- Fred C. Baker and John S. Danforth
- Moose Hunting (1882)
- William Bradford
- Thomas Sedgwick Steele
- Loons (1884)
- Lucius Hubbard
- The City and Rural Scenery (1886)
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- The White Rose Road (1889)
- John Boyle O'Reilly
- Canoeing on the Connecticut (1890)
- John Boyle O'Reilly
- The Sea in a Snowstorm (1891)
- Secondly, of Beasts (1672)
- Frank Bolles
- Night Witchery (1891)
- William Hamilton Gibson
- Clearwater and Woods Hospitality (1891)
- Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
- Fishing for Trout (1892)
- William Cowper Prime
- Trees and Their Leaves (1893)
- Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey
- A Song of Summer (1894)
- John Josselyn
- Mabel Osgood Wright
- Up Tripyramid in Snow Shoes (1895)
- Isaac Chubuck
- Flowers in the Waste Places (1895)
- W. Whitman Bailey
- Canoeing Down the Androscoggin (1898)
- George Elmer Browne
- Purpose in Devices of Plants (1902)
- Ellen Russell Emerson
- The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves (1906)
- Isbn
- 9781493052189
- Label
- New England nature : centuries of writing on the wonder and beauty of the land
- Title
- New England nature
- Title remainder
- centuries of writing on the wonder and beauty of the land
- Statement of responsibility
- David K. Leff and Eric D. Lehman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it's the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and culture in a relatively small, six-state region. Maybe it's the regenerative powers of the ecosystem in a place of repeated exploitations. Or maybe we have simply been thinking about our relationship with the natural world longer than everyone. If all successive nature writing is a footnote to Henry David Thoreau, then New England has a strong claim to being the birthplace of the genre. But there are, as the sixty entries in this anthology demonstrate, many other regional voices that extol the wonders and beauty of the outdoors, explore local ecology, and call for environmental sustainability. Between these covers, Noah Webster calls for our stewardship of nature and Lydia Sigourney finds sublime pleasure in it. Jonathan Edwards and Helen Keller both find miracles, while Samuel Peters and Mark Twain find humor. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne discovers a place to hide his metaphors, while the enslaved James Mars discovers an actual hiding place. Through it all is the apprehension of a profound and lasting splendor, "the glory of physical nature," as W.E.B. Dubois calls it, something beyond our everyday concerns and yet tied so closely to our daily lives that we cannot escape it. Nature writing cultivates our sense of beauty, inflaming curiosity and the passion to explore. It opens us to deep, primal experiences that enrich life. Anyone wanting to understand our relationship with the world must start here.
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- New England nature : centuries of writing on the wonder and beauty of the land, David K. Leff and Eric D. Lehman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-248)
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- Contents
-
- Of the Rainbow (1710s)
- Gifford Pinchot
- The Seeing Hand (1908)
- Hellen Keller
- Starkfield (1911)
- Edith Wharton
- Ipswich Shore (1913)
- Charles Wendell Townsend
- Landscape Painting (1914)
- Henry Ward Ranger
- Mount Hope (1915)
- Jonathan Edwards
- Clifton Johnson
- Spring Day (1916)
- Amy Lowell
- The White Mountains (1917)
- Louise C. Hale
- The Queen of the Swamp (1920)
- Walter Prichard Eaton
- Ascutney (1920)
- Percy Goldthwait Stiles
- The Beauty of the World (1920)
- Frogs and Caterpillars (1781)
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Introduction, Review of Present Conditions and Recommendations for the Future (1921)
- Frederic C. Walcott
- Samuel Peters
- River Caves (1800)
- Timothy Dwight
- Account of a Meteor (1810)
- Benjamin Silliman
- Domestic Economy (1817)
- Noah Webster
- Introduction /
- The Whale's Revenge (1821)
- Owen Chase
- Excursion from Providence to Bristol (1840)
- Charles T. Jackson
- Ktaadn (1848)
- Henry David Thoreau
- The Great Stone Face (1850)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nature (1850)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- New England: Gateway to American Nature Writing
- Descriptive and Physical Geography (1853)
- Zadock Thompson
- Pleasure of Winter (1854)
- Lydia Sigourney
- he Fairy Flower (1854)
- Lousia May Alcott
- Sounds of Inanimate Nature (1857)
- Wilson Flagg
- Katahdin (1863)
- Theodore Winthrop
- Penobscot to Cape Cod (1616)
- Water Lilies (1863)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Destructiveness of Man (1864)
- George Perkins Marsh
- Hiding in the Woods (1864)
- James Mars -- Advertising in Nature (1865)
- P.T. Barnum
- Natural History (1866)
- James Gates Percival
- A Good Word for Winter (1871)
- John Smith
- James Russell Lowell
- Elm Trees (1873)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Bird and Lighthouse (1873)
- Celia Thaxter
- Bluefish off Nantucket (1875)
- Samuel Adams Drake
- New England Weather (1876)
- Mark Twain
- The Sugar Camp (1877)
- Hurrican and Earthquake (1651)
- Charles Dudley Warner
- Going A-Chestnutting (1878)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Sea Urchins (1879)
- Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
- Hunting for Nests (1880)
- Amanda Bartlett Harris
- Hunting and Trapping (1882)
- Fred C. Baker and John S. Danforth
- Moose Hunting (1882)
- William Bradford
- Thomas Sedgwick Steele
- Loons (1884)
- Lucius Hubbard
- The City and Rural Scenery (1886)
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- The White Rose Road (1889)
- John Boyle O'Reilly
- Canoeing on the Connecticut (1890)
- John Boyle O'Reilly
- The Sea in a Snowstorm (1891)
- Secondly, of Beasts (1672)
- Frank Bolles
- Night Witchery (1891)
- William Hamilton Gibson
- Clearwater and Woods Hospitality (1891)
- Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
- Fishing for Trout (1892)
- William Cowper Prime
- Trees and Their Leaves (1893)
- Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey
- A Song of Summer (1894)
- John Josselyn
- Mabel Osgood Wright
- Up Tripyramid in Snow Shoes (1895)
- Isaac Chubuck
- Flowers in the Waste Places (1895)
- W. Whitman Bailey
- Canoeing Down the Androscoggin (1898)
- George Elmer Browne
- Purpose in Devices of Plants (1902)
- Ellen Russell Emerson
- The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves (1906)
- Control code
- 1135380793
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9781493052189
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- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1135380793
- Label
- New England nature : centuries of writing on the wonder and beauty of the land, David K. Leff and Eric D. Lehman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-248)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Of the Rainbow (1710s)
- Gifford Pinchot
- The Seeing Hand (1908)
- Hellen Keller
- Starkfield (1911)
- Edith Wharton
- Ipswich Shore (1913)
- Charles Wendell Townsend
- Landscape Painting (1914)
- Henry Ward Ranger
- Mount Hope (1915)
- Jonathan Edwards
- Clifton Johnson
- Spring Day (1916)
- Amy Lowell
- The White Mountains (1917)
- Louise C. Hale
- The Queen of the Swamp (1920)
- Walter Prichard Eaton
- Ascutney (1920)
- Percy Goldthwait Stiles
- The Beauty of the World (1920)
- Frogs and Caterpillars (1781)
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Introduction, Review of Present Conditions and Recommendations for the Future (1921)
- Frederic C. Walcott
- Samuel Peters
- River Caves (1800)
- Timothy Dwight
- Account of a Meteor (1810)
- Benjamin Silliman
- Domestic Economy (1817)
- Noah Webster
- Introduction /
- The Whale's Revenge (1821)
- Owen Chase
- Excursion from Providence to Bristol (1840)
- Charles T. Jackson
- Ktaadn (1848)
- Henry David Thoreau
- The Great Stone Face (1850)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nature (1850)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- New England: Gateway to American Nature Writing
- Descriptive and Physical Geography (1853)
- Zadock Thompson
- Pleasure of Winter (1854)
- Lydia Sigourney
- he Fairy Flower (1854)
- Lousia May Alcott
- Sounds of Inanimate Nature (1857)
- Wilson Flagg
- Katahdin (1863)
- Theodore Winthrop
- Penobscot to Cape Cod (1616)
- Water Lilies (1863)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Destructiveness of Man (1864)
- George Perkins Marsh
- Hiding in the Woods (1864)
- James Mars -- Advertising in Nature (1865)
- P.T. Barnum
- Natural History (1866)
- James Gates Percival
- A Good Word for Winter (1871)
- John Smith
- James Russell Lowell
- Elm Trees (1873)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Bird and Lighthouse (1873)
- Celia Thaxter
- Bluefish off Nantucket (1875)
- Samuel Adams Drake
- New England Weather (1876)
- Mark Twain
- The Sugar Camp (1877)
- Hurrican and Earthquake (1651)
- Charles Dudley Warner
- Going A-Chestnutting (1878)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Sea Urchins (1879)
- Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
- Hunting for Nests (1880)
- Amanda Bartlett Harris
- Hunting and Trapping (1882)
- Fred C. Baker and John S. Danforth
- Moose Hunting (1882)
- William Bradford
- Thomas Sedgwick Steele
- Loons (1884)
- Lucius Hubbard
- The City and Rural Scenery (1886)
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- The White Rose Road (1889)
- John Boyle O'Reilly
- Canoeing on the Connecticut (1890)
- John Boyle O'Reilly
- The Sea in a Snowstorm (1891)
- Secondly, of Beasts (1672)
- Frank Bolles
- Night Witchery (1891)
- William Hamilton Gibson
- Clearwater and Woods Hospitality (1891)
- Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
- Fishing for Trout (1892)
- William Cowper Prime
- Trees and Their Leaves (1893)
- Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey
- A Song of Summer (1894)
- John Josselyn
- Mabel Osgood Wright
- Up Tripyramid in Snow Shoes (1895)
- Isaac Chubuck
- Flowers in the Waste Places (1895)
- W. Whitman Bailey
- Canoeing Down the Androscoggin (1898)
- George Elmer Browne
- Purpose in Devices of Plants (1902)
- Ellen Russell Emerson
- The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves (1906)
- Control code
- 1135380793
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 258 pages
- Isbn
- 9781493052189
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1135380793
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