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Scheese, Don.

Nature writing : the pastoral impulse in America / Don Scheese.

New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1996.

xxi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Writers discussed include Edward Abbey, Ansel Adams, Mary Austin, William Bartram, Jim Battles, William Beebe, Wendell Berry, Henry Beston, Albert Bierstadt, Sally Carrighar, Rachel Carson, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Charles Darwin, Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.H. Hudson, George Inness, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Jeffries, Clarence King, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, George Perkins Marsh, N. Scott Momaday, John Muir, Pliny the Elder, John Wesley Powell, Michael Aaron Rockland, Gary Snyder, Wallace Stegner, Henry David Thoreau, Carleton Watkins, and Gilbert White.

Studies in literary themes and genres ; no. 7

Studies in literary themes and genres ; no. 7.

Pastoral literature, American -- History and criticism.

Natural history -- United States -- Historiography.

Country life in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Nature in literature.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-181) and index.

Also issued online.

Walden, Ktaadn, and Walking -- My first summer in the Sierra -- The land of little rain -- A Sand County almanac -- Desert solitaire -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

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