Contents: Izaak Walton -- On the Gentle Art of Fishing -- Ann and Myron Sutton -- Adventures of Georg Wilhelm Steller -- Gilbert White -- Selborne -- Donald Culross Peattie -- Linnaean Age -- William Bartram -- Start of a Famous Journey -- Isaac D'Israeli -- Introducers of Exotic Flowers, Fruits, Etc., -- Alexander Wilson -- Carolina Paroquet -- John James Audubon -- Passenger Pigeon -- William Cobbett -- Rural Ride -- Charles Waterton -- Capturing a Cayman -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Great Bird of Paradise -- Charles Darwin -- Tierra Del Fuego -- George Borrow -- King of the Vipers -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nature -- Herman Melville -- Concerning Whales -- Henry David Thoreau -- Sights, Sounds and Reflections at Walden Pond -- Richard Henry Dana -- On the Beach at San Diego -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Dissertation on New England Elms -- John Muir -- Water Ouzel -- Elliott Coues -- Burrowing Owl -- Richard Jefferies -- Nature and Books -- John Burroughs -- In the Hemlocks -- Dallas Lore Sharp -- Turtle Eggs for Agassiz -- W. H. Hudson -- Seen and Lost -- W. J. Holland -- Sugaring for Moths -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Pronghorn Antelope -- Raymond L. Ditmars -- Serpent's World -- William T. Davis -- South Beach, Staten Island -- Frank M. Chapman -- Ornithologist in Cuba -- Henry Beston -- Headlong Wave -- Robert Cushman Murphy -- Guanay -- Thomas Barbour -- Glory Hole -- Edwin Way Teale -- Winged Bullets -- Willis J. Gertsch -- Lassoing Spider -- T. H. White -- Snakes are About -- Howard J. Shannon -- Ghost Crab -- Brian Curtis -- Air Bladder in Fishes -- Lewis Ketcham Sillcox -- Fortune of Forests -- Gilbert C. Klingel -- In Defense of Octopuses -- Wolfgang Langewiesche -- What Makes the Weather -- William Beebe -- Too Deep to be Seen -- William M. Mann -- Armies of Ants -- Louis J. Halle, Jr. -- Above Politics -- Rutherford Platt -- World's Greatest Waterworks -- Willy Ley -- Century of Platypus -- Guy Murchie, Jr. -- Torrent of Air -- Joseph Wood Krutch -- Contemplative Toad -- Arthur Loveridge -- Macharia the Mamba-Catcher -- Brooks Atkinson -- Smoke from a Valley Cabin -- Rachel Carson -- Long Snowfall -- George Miksch Sutton -- Sparrow's Nest -- Paul Bulla -- Well-Traveled Eel -- Lorus J. and Margery J. Milne -- Jungles under Moonlight -- C. J. Guiguet -- Enigma of the Pacific -- Aldo Leopold -- Good Oak -- Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher -- Love Song of the Wolf -- Archie Carr -- Riddle of the Ridley -- Walter Sullivan -- Antarctica -- Bret Harte -- To the Pliocene Skull (Geological Address) -- Gary Webster -- Is There Life on Other Worlds?

Control code: 1068140

Dimensions: 22 cm

Edition: 1st ed..

Extent: 640 pages

Lccn: 57011428

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System control number: (OCoLC)1068140

Label: Treasury of great nature writing, edited with comments and biographical notes

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Garden City, N.Y., Hanover House, 1957

Note: Full name: John Francis Kieran

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Content category: text

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Contents: Izaak Walton -- On the Gentle Art of Fishing -- Ann and Myron Sutton -- Adventures of Georg Wilhelm Steller -- Gilbert White -- Selborne -- Donald Culross Peattie -- Linnaean Age -- William Bartram -- Start of a Famous Journey -- Isaac D'Israeli -- Introducers of Exotic Flowers, Fruits, Etc., -- Alexander Wilson -- Carolina Paroquet -- John James Audubon -- Passenger Pigeon -- William Cobbett -- Rural Ride -- Charles Waterton -- Capturing a Cayman -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Great Bird of Paradise -- Charles Darwin -- Tierra Del Fuego -- George Borrow -- King of the Vipers -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nature -- Herman Melville -- Concerning Whales -- Henry David Thoreau -- Sights, Sounds and Reflections at Walden Pond -- Richard Henry Dana -- On the Beach at San Diego -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Dissertation on New England Elms -- John Muir -- Water Ouzel -- Elliott Coues -- Burrowing Owl -- Richard Jefferies -- Nature and Books -- John Burroughs -- In the Hemlocks -- Dallas Lore Sharp -- Turtle Eggs for Agassiz -- W. H. Hudson -- Seen and Lost -- W. J. Holland -- Sugaring for Moths -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Pronghorn Antelope -- Raymond L. Ditmars -- Serpent's World -- William T. Davis -- South Beach, Staten Island -- Frank M. Chapman -- Ornithologist in Cuba -- Henry Beston -- Headlong Wave -- Robert Cushman Murphy -- Guanay -- Thomas Barbour -- Glory Hole -- Edwin Way Teale -- Winged Bullets -- Willis J. Gertsch -- Lassoing Spider -- T. H. White -- Snakes are About -- Howard J. Shannon -- Ghost Crab -- Brian Curtis -- Air Bladder in Fishes -- Lewis Ketcham Sillcox -- Fortune of Forests -- Gilbert C. Klingel -- In Defense of Octopuses -- Wolfgang Langewiesche -- What Makes the Weather -- William Beebe -- Too Deep to be Seen -- William M. Mann -- Armies of Ants -- Louis J. Halle, Jr. -- Above Politics -- Rutherford Platt -- World's Greatest Waterworks -- Willy Ley -- Century of Platypus -- Guy Murchie, Jr. -- Torrent of Air -- Joseph Wood Krutch -- Contemplative Toad -- Arthur Loveridge -- Macharia the Mamba-Catcher -- Brooks Atkinson -- Smoke from a Valley Cabin -- Rachel Carson -- Long Snowfall -- George Miksch Sutton -- Sparrow's Nest -- Paul Bulla -- Well-Traveled Eel -- Lorus J. and Margery J. Milne -- Jungles under Moonlight -- C. J. Guiguet -- Enigma of the Pacific -- Aldo Leopold -- Good Oak -- Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher -- Love Song of the Wolf -- Archie Carr -- Riddle of the Ridley -- Walter Sullivan -- Antarctica -- Bret Harte -- To the Pliocene Skull (Geological Address) -- Gary Webster -- Is There Life on Other Worlds?

Control code: 1068140

Dimensions: 22 cm

Edition: 1st ed..

Extent: 640 pages

Lccn: 57011428

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

System control number: (OCoLC)1068140

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