The Norton book of nature writing / edited by Robert Finch and John Elder.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1137]-1146)

GILBERT WHITE (1720?1793) : From The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ; HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREÌVECOEUR (1735?1813) : From Letters from an American Farmer, From Sketches of Eighteenth century America ; WILLIAM BARTRAM (1739?1823) : From Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & 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 ; SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER (1813?1894): From Rural Hours ; HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817?1862) : From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, From Walden: or, Life in the Woods, Walking, From The Maine Woods, From Journals ; CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819?1875): From Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore ; WALT WHITMAN (1819?1892) : From Specimen Days and Collect ; JOHN WESLEY POWELL (1834?1902) : From Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries ; SAMUEL CLEMENS (1835?1910) : From Life on the Mississippi ; CELIA THAXTER (1835?1894) : From An Island Garden ; JOHN BURROUGHS (1837?1921) : In Mammoth Cave ; JOHN MUIR (1838?1914) : A Wind-Storm in the Forests, The Water-Ouzel ; W. H. HUDSON (1841?1922) : My Friend the Pig, From Idle Days in Patagonia ; CLARENCE KING (1842?1901) : From Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada ;

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844?1889) : From Notebooks and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins ; RICHARD JEFFERIES (1848?1887) : Out of Doors in February, Absence of Design in Nature ; MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT (1859?1934) : The Story of a Garden ; ERNEST THOMPSON SETON (1860?1946) : From Wild Animals I Have Known ; GENE STRATTON PORTER (1863?1924) : From Moths of the Limberlost ; MARY AUSTIN (1868?1934) : The Land of Little Rain ; LUTHER STANDING BEAR (1868?1939) : Nature ; EDWARD THOMAS (1878?1917) : Hampshire, The End of Summer ; ROCKWELL KENT (1882?1971) : From N by E ; VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882?1941) : The Death of the Moth ; ISAK DINESEN (1885?1962): From Out of Africa ;

D. H. LAWRENCE (1885?1930): Flowery Tuscany ; E. L. GRANT WATSON (1885?1970) : Unknown Eros, Wave and Cliff ; HENRY BESTON (1888?1968) : From The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod ; ALDO LEOPOLD (1888?1948) : From A Sand County Almanac ; JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH (1893?1970) : Love in the Desert ; HENRY WILLIAMSON (1895?1977) : From Tarka the Otter ; DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE (1898?1964) : From An Almanac for Moderns ; VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899?1977) : Butterflies ; SIGURD OLSON (1899?1982) : Northern Lights ; EDWIN WAY TEALE (1899?1980) : The Lost Woods ; E. B. WHITE (1899?1985) : A Slight Sound at Evening ; MERIDEL LESUEUR (1900?1996) : The Ancient People and the Newly Come ; RENEÌ DUBOS (1901?1982) : A Family of Landscapes ; NORMAN MACLEAN (1902?1990) : From A River Runs Through It ; JOHN STEINBECK (1902?1968) : From The Log from the Sea of Cortez ; LAURENS VAN DER POST (1906?1996) : From The Heart of the Hunter ; T. H. WHITE (1906?1964) : The Snakes Are About ; RACHEL CARSON (1907?1964) : The Marginal World ;

LOREN EISELEY (1907?1977) The Judgment of the Birds ; RICHARD WRIGHT (1908?1960) : From Black Boy ; ARCHIE CARR (1909?1987) : The Lively Petes of Parque Vargas ; WALLACE STEGNER (1909?1993) : Glen Canyon Submersus, Coda: Wilderness Letter ; JACQUETTA HAWKES (1910?1996) : From A Land ; JOSEPHINE JOHNSON (1910?1990): From The Inland Island ; LEWIS THOMAS (1913?1993) : Death in the Open, The World?s Biggest Membrane ; JOHN HAY (b. 1915) : The Common Night, The Dovekie and the Ocean Sunfish : THOMAS MERTON (1915?1968) : Rain and the Rhinoceros ; FAITH MCNULTY (b. 1918): Mouse ; FARLEY MOWAT (b. 1921) : From Never Cry Wolf ; JOHN HAINES (b. 1924): Moments and Journeys ; MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925) : Silver Snaffles ; ANN HAYMOND ZWINGER (b. 1925) : Of Red-Tailed Hawks and Black-Tailed Gnatcatchers ; J. A. BAKER (b. 1926) : Beginnings ; JOHN FOWLES (b. 1926) : From The Tree ; FRANKLIN RUSSELL (b. 1926) : The Island of Auks ; EDWARD ABBEY (1927?1989) : The Serpents of Paradise, The Great American Desert ; PETER MATTHIESSEN (b. 1927) : From The Tree Where Man Was Born, From The Wind Birds ; NOEL PERRIN (b. 1927) : Pig Tales ; URSULA K. LE GUIN (b. 1929) : A Very Warm Mountain ; EDWARD O. WILSON (b. 1929) : The Bird of Paradise ;

GARY SNYDER (b. 1930) : Ancient Forests of the Far West : JOHN MCPHEE (b. 1931) : Under the Snow ; EDWARD HOAGLAND (b. 1932) : Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion, Thoughts on Returning to the City After Five Months on a Mountain Where the Wolves Howled ; WILLIAM KITTREDGE (b. 1932) : Owning It All ; WENDELL BERRY (b. 1934): An Entrance to the Woods, The Making of a Marginal Farm ; N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934) : The Way to Rainy Mountain ; SUE HUBBELL (b. 1935) : From A Country Year ; TIM ROBINSON (b. 1935) : Timescape with Signpost ; CHET RAYMO (b. 1936) : The Silence ; JIM HARRISON (b. 1937) : The Beginner?s Mind ; FREEMAN HOUSE (b. 1937) : In Salmon?s Water ; WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON (b. 1939) : Under Old Nell?s Skirt, Atop the Mound ; BRUCE CHATWIN (1940?1989) : From The Songlines ; MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940) : A City Person Encountering Nature ; JOHN HANSON MITCHELL (b. 1940) : From Living at the End of Time ; RICHARD K. NELSON (b. 1941) : The Gifts ; JOSEPH BRUCHAC (b. 1942) : The Circle Is the Way to See ; FRANKLIN BURROUGHS (b. 1942): Of Moose and a Moose Hunter ; DOUG PEACOCK (b. 1942) : The Big Snow ; ROBERT FINCH (b. 1943) : Death of a Hornet ; LINDA HASSELSTROM (b. 1943) : Nighthawks Fly in Thunderstorms ;

TRUDY DITTMAR (b. 1944) : Moose ; ALICE WALKER (b. 1944) : Am I Blue? ; ANNIE DILLARD (b. 1945): Heaven and Earth in Jest, Living Like Weasels, Total Eclipse ; JAN ZITA GROVER (b. 1945) : Cutover ; BARRY LOPEZ (b. 1945) : From Arctic Dreams, The American Geographies ; SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS (b. 1945) : Buckeye ; DAVID RAINS WALLACE (b. 1945) : The Human Element ; ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING (b. 1946) : Wolf, Eagle, Bear: An Alaska Notebook ; GRETEL EHRLICH (b. 1946) : Friends, Foes, and Working Animals ; ELLEN MELOY (b. 1946) : The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas ; EMILY HIESTAND (b. 1947) : Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah ; LINDA HOGAN (b. 1947) : The Bats ; ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE (b. 1947) : And the Coyotes Will Lift a Leg ; DIANE ACKERMAN (b. 1948) : Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall ; JOHN DANIEL (b. 1948) : A Word in Favor of Rootlessness ; DAVID QUAMMEN (b. 1948) : Strawberries Under Ice ; LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948) : Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination ; JAMAICA KINCAID (b. 1949) : Alien Soil ; DAVID JAMES DUNCAN (b. 1952) : Northwest Passage ; RAY GONZALEZ (b. 1952) : The Third Eye of the Lizard ; VICKI HEARNE (1952?2001) : Calling Animals by Name ; GARY PAUL NABHAN (b. 1952) : From The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country ; DAVID MAS MASUMOTO (b. 1954) : Planting Seeds ; SHARMAN APT RUSSELL (b. 1954) : Gila Wilderness ; EVELYN WHITE (b. 1954) : Black Women and the Wilderness ; BARBARA KINGSOLVER (b. 1955) : High Tide in Tucson ; MICHAEL POLLAN (b. 1955) : Weeds Are Us ; TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS (b. 1955) : The Clan of One-Breasted Women ; JANE BROX (b. 1956) : Baldwins ; DAVID ABRAM (b. 1957) : The Ecology of Magic ; RICK BASS (b. 1958) : From The Ninemile Wolves ; BILL MCKIBBEN (b. 1960) : From The End of Nature ; JANISSE RAY (b. 1962) : Built by Fire, Forest Beloved.