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| Nature Writing: The Tradition in English | 
| Creators: Robert Finch, John Elder
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 275692
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2 Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1024
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 2
ISBN: 0393049663
Dewey Decimal Number: 508
EAN: 9780393049664
ASIN: 0393049663
Publication Date: February 2002
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Amazon.com Review
This fine, well-annotated anthology offers selections from familiar writers such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez. It contains surprises as well, including George Orwell's little-known essay, "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" and Herman Melville's musings on how the great white whale came to be so white in the first place, the fruit of the deep natural-historical research that underlies Moby-Dick. At more than 900 pages, The Norton Book of Nature Writing is too hefty to pack into the wild, but every page is an inspiration to take into the world outdoors.
Product Description
Man's encounter with nature has produced some of the great literature of our time. Darwin's ruminations on the Galapagos Islands, Melville's exploration of the "whiteness of the whale, " and Thoreau's communion with Walden Pond are monuments in the history of writing and thought. "The Norton Book of Nature Writing, " including 125 selections by 94 writers, is the fist definitive and comprehensive collection of the many voices of nature writing which have flourished in English and American over the last two hundred years.
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 Non-Sensical Writing September 14, 2007
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
Annie Dillard's book is mostly a composition of nonsense. Here is an execrpt from the book;
"I look at [the grasshoppers'] tapered, chitin-covered abdomen, plated and barred as a tank tread, and was about to turn away when I saw it breathe, puff, puff, and I grew sympathetic. Yeah, I said, puf, puff, isn't it? It jerked away with a buzz . . . and continued to puff in the grass. So puff it is, and that's all there is; though I'm partial to honey myself."
The book is full of nonsensical garble like this. If anyone has an explanation to this, feel free to correct me!
 A widereaching collection July 11, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
From Charles Darwin and Aldo Leopold to Edwin Teale and Laurens Van Der Post, this covers the history and tradition of nature writing in English. Essays and insights by some of the most famous nature writers in the language include writers of diverse ethnic backgrounds and from around the world. A widereaching collection, this will appeal to both science and literary collections.
 Wonderful Read, But Oh My... June 13, 2000
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I love nature writing, so to my mind, this is a grand book. All the great writers are here, with one exception: there is a signal lack of modern nature writers (last half of the 20th Century). Beyond that, the selection of great nature writers is first rate.The real problem with this book is that it is so big and the binding so weak you really can't take this book into nature to read it. I took it with me during a trip to the north end of the Queen Charlotte Islands; the moment I found a spot to relax and got the book out, I found I was wrestling with a ten pound weight that flopped all over the place. So, a warning: this book is for the fireside or a cozy evening in bed, not the field. Otherwise, wonderful!
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