
New England Nature
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If all successive nature writing is a footnote to Henry David Thoreau, then New England has a strong claim to being the birthplace of the genre. But there are, as the sixty entries in this anthology demonstrate, many other regional voices that extol the wonders and beauty of the outdoors, explore local ecology, and call for environmental sustainability. Between these covers, Noah Webster calls for our stewardship of nature and Lydia Sigourney finds sublime pleasure in it. Jonathan Edwards and Helen Keller both find miracles, while Samuel Peters and Mark Twain find humor. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne discovers a place to hide his metaphors, while the enslaved James Mars discovers an actual hiding place.
Through it all is the apprehension of a profound and lasting splendor, "the glory of physical nature," as W.E.B. Dubois calls it, something beyond our everyday concerns and yet tied so closely to our daily lives that we cannot escape it. Nature writing cultivates our sense of beauty, inflaming curiosity and the passion to explore. It opens us to deep, primal experiences that enrich life. Anyone wanting to understand our relationship with the world must start here.
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Eric D. Lehman is an Associate Professor at the University of Bridgeport and the author or editor of ninteen books, including seven from Globe Pequot Press: Insiders' Guide to Connecticut, A Connecticut Christmas, Connecticut Waters, Connecticut Town Greens, Quotable New Englander, Yankee's New England Adventures, and New England at 400: From Plymouth Rock to Present Day. His biography of Charles Stratton, Becoming Tom Thumb, won the Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America, and was chosen as one of the American Library Association's outstanding university press books of the year. His novella, Shadows of Paris, was the Novella of the Year from the Next Gen Indie Book Awards, won a Silver Medal for Romance from the Foreword Review Indie Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- New England: Gateway to American Nature Writing
- "Penobscot to Cape Cod" by John Smith
- "Hurricane and Earthquake" by William Bradford
- "Secondly, of Beasts" by John Josselyn
- "Of the Rainbow" by Jonathan Edwards
- "Frogs and Caterpillars" by Samuel Peters
- "River Caves" by Timothy Dwight
- "Account of a Meteor" by Benjamin Silliman
- "Domestic Economy" by Noah Webster
- "The Whale's Revenge" by Owen Chase
- "Excursion from Providence to Bristol" by Charles T. Jackson
- "Ktaadn" by Henry David Thoreau
- "The Great Stone Face" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Descriptive and Physical Geography" by Zadock Thompson
- "Pleasures of Winter" by Lydia Sigourney
- "The Fairy Flower" by Louisa May Alcott
- "Sounds of Inanimate Nature" by Wilson Flagg
- "Katahdin" by Theodore Winthrop
- "Water Lilies" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- "Destructiveness of Man" by George Perkins Marsh
- "Hiding in the Woods" by James Mars
- "Advertising in Nature" by P. T. Barnum
- "Natural History" by James Gates Percival
- "A Good Word for Winter" by James Russell Lowell
- "Elm Trees" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Bird and Lighthouse" by Celia Thaxter
- "Bluefish off Nantucket" by Samuel Adams Drake
- "New England Weather" by Mark Twain
- "The Sugar Camp" by Charles Dudley Warner
- "Going A-Chestnutting" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- "Sea Urchins" by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
- "Hunting for Nests" by Amanda Bartlett Harris
- "Hunting and Trapping" by Fred C. Barker and John S. Danforth
- "Moose Hunting" by Thomas Sedgwick Steele
- "Loons" by Lucius Hubbard
- "The City and Rural Scenery" by Frederick Law Olmsted
- "The White Rose Road" by Sarah Orne Jewett
- "Canoeing on the Connecticut" by John Boyle O'Reilly
- "The Sea in a Snowstorm" by Frank Bolles
- "Night Witchery" by William Hamilton Gibson
- "Clearwater and Woods Hospitality" by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
- "Fishing for Trout" by William Cowper Prime
- "Trees and Their Leaves" by Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey
- "A Song of Summer" by Mabel Osgood Wright
- "Up Tripyramid on Snow-Shoes" by Isaac Chubbuck
- "Flowers in the Waste Places" by W. Whitman Bailey
- "Canoeing Down the Androscoggin" by George Elmer Browne
- "Purpose in Devices of Plants" by Ellen Russell Emerson
- "The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves" by Gifford Pinchot
- "The Seeing Hand" by Helen Keller
- "Starkfield" by Edith Wharton
- "Ipswich Shore" by Charles Wendell Townsend
- "Landscape Painting" by Henry Ward Ranger
- "Mount Hope" by Clifton Johnson
- "Spring Day" by Amy Lowell
- "The White Mountains" by Louise C. Hale
- "The Queen of the Swamp" by Walter Prichard Eaton
- "Ascutney" by Percy Goldthwait Stiles
- "The Beauty of the World" by W. E. B. Du Bois
- "Introduction, Review of Present Conditions and Recommendations for the Future" by Frederic C. Walcott
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
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