Search Results: American Nature Writers by John Elder

New York, NY: Gale Cengage, 1996. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. almost like new, lightest of shelfwear, PRICE IS FOR BOTH VOLUMES No ownership marks First Printing, no priority due to weight. Hardcover (US). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 2 vols. Contains: Illustrations. Scribner Writers. Audience: General/trade.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. Comprehensive two-volume reference text contains a collection of history and criticism of the nature writing genre and 70 biographical and critical essays devoted to individual writers. These scholarly analyses consider different works and authors from a nature perspective; more than a third of the essays are devoted to contemporary authors.Includes sections on African-Americans, writing, and nature; bioregionalism in nature writing; Canadian nature writing in English; contemporary ecofiction; early romantic natural history literature; the forms of American nature poetry; literary theory and nature writing; literature of mountaineering; modern birdwatching literature; nature in Native American literatures; new voices in American nature writing; western geologists and explorers: Clarence King and John Wesley Powell. 1210 pgs. Note: Heavy Items.. First Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.