Speaking for Nature (eBook)

Paul Brooks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
320 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-79547-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Narrative portraits of America's great literary naturalists offer a 200-year history of wildlife conservation: Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, Beebe, Carson, and many others. "Brisk and illuminating." — The New York Times Book Review.

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Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200-year history of the country's movement toward conservation. Profiles of leaders in the fight to protect the environment and safeguard our natural heritage include John Burroughs, John Muir, William Beebe, and many others. A new Foreword has been written for this edition by Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. "e;A richly informative book which portrays the nature writers from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson who shaped the development of conservation in America."e; — San Francisco Chronicle "e;A brisk and illuminating survey of the naturalists who by their writing moved Americans into the age of ecology."e; — The New York Times Book Review "e;This valuable book reviews the past century of American nature writing from the prose rhapsodies of Thoreau and Muir to the alarm calls of Bernard DeVoto and Rachel Carson . . . writers who have fought bravely and well and have left us a powerful heritage upon which to build."e; — Boston Globe"e;Paul Brooks's gracefully illustrated text, in the very tradition it honors, offers hope that reason and reverence — the poetry of science — will prevail."e; — Washington Post Book World

Autor

Paul Brooks (1909–98) was an environmental activist, writer, and editor-in-chief at Houghton Mifflin for 25 years, where he edited groundbreaking books such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Roger Tory Peterson's field guides to birds. His first book, Roadless Area, won the two top literary awards in its field: the John Burroughs Medal and the Sarah Chapman Francis Medal of the Garden Club of America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 33
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: American History • american nature • american wilderness • animals • conservation • dover books, dover books on plants and animals, environmentalism, conservation, literary naturalists, transcendentalism, the birth of the american environmental movement, environment, nature, wilderness, preservation, natural world, maine woods, yosemite, sierra, american wilderness, american history, historical environmentalism, naturalism, john muir, henry david thoreau, society, engaging, natural settings, animals, history, democracy, government and governing, realistic, students and teachers • Environment • Environmentalism • Henry David Thoreau • historical environmentalism • john burroughs • John Muir • linda lear • Literary Naturalists • maine woods • Naturalism • natural settings • natural world • Nature • Nature writing • Paul Brooks • powerful heritage • Preservation • Rachel Carson • republication • Sierra • Speaking for Nature • students and teachers • Transcendentalism • Wilderness • William Beebe • Yosemite
• ISBN-10: 0-486-79547-0 / 0486795470
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-79547-8 / 9780486795478