Bird Stories From Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken From the Works of John Burroughs Illustrated Edition Dodo Press Paperback 1409980448 9781409980445 John Burroughs

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• Author: John Burroughs
• ISBN10: 1409980448
• ISBN13: 9781409980445

John Burroughs 1837-1921 was an American naturalist and essayist. He played an important role in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughss special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of 'a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world. ' His most famous works include: Winter Sunshine 1875 , Locusts and Wild Honey 1879 , The Writings of John Burroughs 1895 and Far and Near 1904 .