Research Catalog

Title

The wilderness reader / edited by Frank Bergon.

Publication

Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Bergon, Frank.

Description

372 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

Natural history > United States

Note

• Originally published: New York : New American Library ; London : New English Library, c1980.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Literature of the American Wilderness. -- History of the Dividing Line / William Byrd. -- Travels in Florida / William Bartram. -- Across the Continent / Meriwether Lewis. -- Buffalo Country / George Catlin. -- Missouri River Journals / John James Audubon. -- West of the Great Basin / John C. Fremont. -- Hunting Indians / Francis Parkman. -- "Ktaadn" / Henry David Thoreau. -- Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada / Clarence King. -- Exploration of the Colorado River / John Wesley Powell. -- Canyon Country / Clarence Dutton. -- Adirondack Wilderness / Verplanck Colvin. -- A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird.
• Vision in the Crazy Mountains / Plenty Coups. -- Hunting in the Badlands / Theodore Roosevelt. -- Birch Browsings / John Burroughs. -- The Range of Light / John Muir. -- Land of Little Rain / Mary Austin. -- The Desert / John C. Van Dyke. -- "Thinking Like a Mountain" / Aldo Leopold. -- The Green Lagoons / Aldo Leopold. -- The Edge of the Sea / Rachel Carson. -- Land of the Windy Rain / Edwin Way Teale. -- Packhorse Paradise / Wallace Stegner. -- Wilderness Letter / Wallace Stegner. -- Desert Solitaire / Edward Abbey. -- Coming into the Country / John McPhee. -- The Mountain of My Fear / David Roberts.

ISBN

0874172500 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^94031862^

OCLC

30915180

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library