A natural history of nature writing
By: Frank Stewart.
Publisher: Island Press [for] Shearwater Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: American prose literature -- History and criticism.; Natural history -- United States -- Historiography.; Nature in literature.
Description: In Western society we feel neither entirely at one with our fellow creatures, nor entirely separate. Over the years, nature writers have struggled, in memorable language, with this feeling of "in-betweeness." A Natural History of Nature Writing shows us how this genre combines the rigors of science with the beauty of art to make our minds and our hearts whole. The book offers a penetrating overview of the origins and development of this uniquely American literature.

Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the most prominent American nature writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270) and index.