{"product_id":"reading-nature-the-evolution-of-american-nature-writing-9781611865356","title":"Reading Nature: The Evolution of American Nature Writing","description":"\u003ci\u003eReading Nature\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the ten books that most influenced the scope and direction of literary natural history in the United States. It explores how American nature writing came to focus on the deep observation of wild landscapes and how the genre evolved over 163 years, beginning with the publication of Henry David Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e in 1854. The volume also examines Mary Austin's \u003ci\u003eLand of Little Rain\u003c\/i\u003e (1903), John Burroughs's \u003ci\u003eWays of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (1905), Aldo Leopold's\u003ci\u003e A Sand County Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e (1949), Rachel Carson's \u003ci\u003eThe Sea around Us\u003c\/i\u003e (1951), Edward Abbey's \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), Annie Dillard's \u003ci\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), Terry Tempest Williams's \u003ci\u003eRefuge\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), Robin Wall Kimmerer's \u003ci\u003eBraiding Sweetgrass\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and J. Drew Lanham's\u003ci\u003e The Home Place\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). This book features a series of close readings exploring how these authors transformed popular understanding of the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Seibert Farnsworth\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies and Sciences, Emeritus, at Santa Clara University, where his teaching and research focused on environmental writing and literature. He is currently serving a three-year term on Washington State's Wildlife Diversity Advisory Council, where he cochairs a subcommittee on the WDFW State Wildlife Action Plan. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNature Beyond Solitude: Notes from the Field \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Coves of Departure: Notes from the Sea of Cortes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183558394130,"sku":"9781611865356","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c57fd127-561e-44d4-9a92-302d0665c9ab.jpg?v=1744470594","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-nature-the-evolution-of-american-nature-writing-9781611865356","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}