Speaking for nature : how literary naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson have shaped America /

Brooks, Paul

Speaking for nature : how literary naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson have shaped America / Paul Brooks. - San Franciso : Sierra Club Books, c1983. - xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Contents;

Introduction: A century of changing values
1. "The two Johns": Burroughs and Muir
2. East meets west: The Yosemite story
3. The gentle art of seeing
4. The forces of nature and man
5. A naturalist in the white house
6. Birds and men
7. Birds and women
8. Figs from thistles
9. Nature lovers and nature fakers
10. The "old-fashioned naturalist"
11. Conservation in action
12. The wilderness ideal
13. A new direction



Bibliography: p. 289-294 . _ Index : p. 295-304.

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Naturalists--Biography.--United States
Authors, American--Biography.--19th century
Authors, American--Biography.--20th century
Nature conservation--History.--United States

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