
Tenacious of Life
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For help with the science and the essays, Audubon enlisted the Reverend John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina. While he has been acknowledged as coauthor of the essays, Bachman has received little attention as an American nature writer. While almost all works that describe the history of American nature writing include Audubon, Bachman shows up only in a subordinate clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives to restore Bachman's status as an important American nature writer.
Patterson and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the voices of Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous hunting stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and bombast, and of Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist, scientific detective, moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and humorist. Drawing on all the primary and secondary evidence, Patterson and Russell tell the story of the coauthors' fascinating, conflicted relationship. This collection offers windows onto the early United States and much forgotten lore, often in the form of travel writing, natural history, and unique anecdotes, all told in the compelling voices of Antebellum America's two leading naturalists.
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"Tenacious of Life is a great resource for individuals seeking primary sources that relate to the intersections of human and nonhuman history. Those interested in learning more about slavery, war, Manifest Destiny, and more through the lens of environmental history will find this book insightful."-Mette Flynt, Chronicles of Oklahoma "This book should be of equal interest to historians and naturalists."-J. S. Schwartz, Choice "Valuable and beautiful, if also haunting and provocative. This book fills a serious gap in our literature and gives cause for deep reflection as we stand on the verge of the human-caused Sixth Extinction. The introduction is superb, opening with an important discussion of the central role in the Audubon and Bachman essays of white supremacy, speciesism, slavery, and other forms of violence, and ending with a brief but illuminating comparison with Susan Fenimore Cooper and Henry David Thoreau-a fascinating, even riveting, treatment. The primary essays that follow are classics in natural history, full of energy, incident, and anecdote."-Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A LifeMore details
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Principles
The Quadruped Essays
Common American Wild Cat
American Cross Fox
Carolina Gray Squirrel
Chipping Squirrel
Common American Shrew Mole
Gray Rabbit
Leopard Spermophile
Pennant's Marten or Fisher
Canada Otter
Brown or Norway Rat
American Bison
White Weasel
Raccoon
Virginian Opossum
White American Wolf
Rocky Mountain Sheep
Prong-horned Antelope
Mule Deer
Annulated Marmot Squirrel
LeConte's Pine Mouse
Common American Deer
Red Texan Wolf
American Red Fox
Common Mouse
Cougar
Ring-tailed Bassaris
Missouri Mouse
Columbian Black-tailed Deer
American Black or Silver Fox
Dusky Squirrel
Cinnamon Bear
Rocky Mountain Goat
Grizzly Bear
Richardson's Meadow-Mouse
Pine Marten
American Black Bear
Textual Notes
Works of Natural History Cited in the Essays
Index
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