Product Description: Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200-year history of the country's movement toward conservation...read more

Product Description: An armchair visit to the year 1846 in Concord, Massachusetts, the "Athens of America" and home to Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and other seminal thinkers.

A comprehensive study of the distinguished American author provides insight into her character as well as her struggles as a spokeswoman for conservation

A study of the distinguished American author provides insight into her struggles as a spokeswoman for conservation

An editor comments on the authors he fostered, those he launched, and those he missed, with Agee, Auchincloss, Seton, Churchill, Rachel Carson and J.R.R. Tolkien among those he pushed

A comprehensive study of the distinguished American author provides insight into her character as well as her struggles as a spokeswoman for conservation

Samples of the writings of great literary naturalists supplement an examination of the lives of the outstanding friends of our earth