Introduction to the 1990 Norton Book of Nature Writing -- Gilbert White (1720-1793) -- from The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne -- Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) -- from Letters from an American Farmer -- from Sketches of Eighteenth century America -- William Bartram (1739-1823) -- from Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida ... -- Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) -- from American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States -- John Leonard Knapp (1767-1845) -- from The Journal of a Naturalist -- David Thompson (1770-1857) -- from David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America, 1784-1812 -- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) -- from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth -- Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) -- from The Journals of Lewis and Clark -- Charles Waterton (1782-1865) -- from Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles -- John James Audubon (1785-1851) -- from Ornithological Biography -- John Clare (1793-1864) -- The Natural World -- from The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare -- George Catlin (1796-1872) -- from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians ... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- from Nature -- from The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- from Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle -- from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection -- from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
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