Nature Writing: The Tradition in English
- ISBN-10
- 0393049663
- ISBN-13
- 9780393049664
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 1152
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- John Elder, Robert Finch
Description
Presents a compilation of prose nature writing containing selections by such authors as Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, Edward Hoagland, Annie Dillard, and Terry Tempest Williams.
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