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Summary: This Incomperable Book....
Review: One .."need not know how to name all the oaks or the moths, or be able to recognize a synclinal fault, or tell time by the stars, in order to possess Nature. [S]he may have his mind solely on growing larkspurs, or [s]he may love a boat and a sail and a blue-eyed day at sea. [S]he may have a bent for making paths or banding birds, or [s]he may only be an inveterate and curious walker..." from the preface of THIS INCOMPERABLE LAND.I've been reading Thoreau this morning, and decided to find the hard cover edition of this book, so I'm off to the Z-shops, but before I go, I wanted to write a review because I see no one else has, and I don't want to be the only one who knows about this wonderful book. I'm a naturalist by avocation, and I like reading the writings of other naturalists--people more accomplished than me or people like me who simply love all things natural. If you're a member of either group, you will love this collection of essays. The book contains stories by the finest America naturalists including: John James Audubon, Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Burroughs, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Henry David Thoreau. Essays range in time from the 1600s in New England. "Of the Beasts That Live on the Land" (William Wood), to the 1700s in North Carolina "Travels in North and South Carolina..." (William Bartram), to the ramblings of Audubon in the 1800s in "The Great Pine Swamp." Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" is reproduced from THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, June 1962, and John Muir's "The Water-Ouzel" from THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA in 1894 is included. Every part of the U.S. and every period since the settlement of the first English colony is covered in almost 500 pages. This is a wonderful book of American nature writing by some of America's finest writers.
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Summary: This Incomperable Book....
Review: One .."need not know how to name all the oaks or the moths, or be able to recognize a synclinal fault, or tell time by the stars, in order to possess Nature. [S]he may have his mind solely on growing larkspurs, or [s]he may love a boat and a sail and a blue-eyed day at sea. [S]he may have a bent for making paths or banding birds, or [s]he may only be an inveterate and curious walker..." from the preface of THIS INCOMPERABLE LAND. I've been reading Thoreau this morning, and decided to find the hard cover edition of this book, so I'm off to the Z-shops, but before I go, I wanted to write a review because I see no one else has, and I don't want to be the only one who knows about this wonderful book. I'm a naturalist by avocation, and I like reading the writings of other naturalists--people more accomplished than me or people like me who simply love all things natural. If you're a member of either group, you will love this collection of essays. The book contains stories by the finest America naturalists including: John James Audubon, Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Burroughs, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Henry David Thoreau. Essays range in time from the 1600s in New England. "Of the Beasts That Live on the Land" (William Wood), to the 1700s in North Carolina "Travels in North and South Carolina..." (William Bartram), to the ramblings of Audubon in the 1800s in "The Great Pine Swamp." Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" is reproduced from THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, June 1962, and John Muir's "The Water-Ouzel" from THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA in 1894 is included. Every part of the U.S. and every period since the settlement of the first English colony is covered in almost 500 pages. This is a wonderful book of American nature writing by some of America's finest writers.
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