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The World of John Burroughs - Softcover

Kanze, Edward

 
9780375754272: The World of John Burroughs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 037575427X ISBN 13: 9780375754272
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Celebrates the life and work of one of the earliest pioneers of the United States conservation movement, including his personal experiences with Walt Whitman, Theordore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and John Muir.

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<b>Edward Kanze</b>, writer, photographer, and naturalist, is also the author of <i>Notes from New Zealand, Wild Life: The Remarkable Lives of Ordinary Animals</i>, and a forthcoming book about his travels in Australia. He writes a weekly column for the Hersam Acorn Newspapers and is a member of the John Burroughs Association, based at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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hs was one of the earliest and most articulate pioneers of the United States conservation movement, publishing twenty-eight books on the natural world during the height of the Industrial Revolution. As an author, teacher, and poet, he wrote with intimacy and feeling, illustrating verbal landscapes and providing philosophical insights about the environment. People by the hundreds of thousands relished his writings. <i>The World of John Burroughs</i> focuses not only on his work, but also on Burroughs's personal life. His friends included Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and John Muir. The text is enhanced by Burroughs's essays and poems, and, uniquely, by endearing recollections of his granddaughter. With engaging narrative and illuminating photographs by author Edward Kanze, <i>The World of John Burroughs</i> celebrates Burroughs's dedication to studying the world and making nature come to life on the written page.

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
037575427X
ISBN 13 
9780375754272
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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