Riverby
By: by John Burroughs.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company
Published: 1894
Place of publication: Boston; and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Natural history -- Outdoor books; Birds
Description: John Burroughs (1837-1921) was one of the most popular authors of his day and is credited with creating the modern nature essay and influencing a whole generation of conservationists. Riverby was the name of his home on the banks of the Hudson River, and in the prefatory material to this collection of essays, he asks, "Why should not one name his books as he names his children, arbitrarily, and let the name come to mean much or little, as the case may be?"
Table of contents: title: Among the wild-flowers.; title: The heart of the southern Catskills.; title: Birds' eggs.; title: Bird courtship.; title: Notes from the prairie.; title: Eyebeams.; title: A young marsh hawk.; title: The hawk.; title: The chipmunk.; title: Spring jottings.; title: Glimpses of wild life.; title: A life of fear.; title: Lovers of nature.; title: A taste of Kentucky blue-grass.; title: In Mammoth Cave.; title: Hasty observation.; title: Bird life in an old apple-tree.; title: The ways of sportsmen.; title: Talks with young observers.