Reading the roots : American nature writing before Walden / edited by Michael P. Branch.

Other author Branch, Michael P.
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxxxi, 408 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentBook review (H-Net)
Subjects

Contents Christopher Columbus -- Amerigo Vespucci -- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera -- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés -- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca -- Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera -- Jean Ribaut -- Thomas Hariot -- John Smith -- William Wood -- Thomas Morton -- Anne Bradstreet -- John Josselyn -- Jasper Danckaerts -- Louis Hennepin -- Sarah Kemble Knight -- Robert Beverley -- John Lawson -- Cotton Mather -- Jonathan Edwards -- Paul Dudley -- Mark Catesby -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney -- Peter Kalm -- Benjamin Franklin -- John Winthrop -- Pedro Font -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- John Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth -- Thomas Jefferson -- William Bartram -- James Smith -- Charles Willson Peale -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- Alexander Wilson -- John Bradbury -- Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Timothy Dwight -- Edwin James -- Solomon Bayley -- Timothy Flint -- Anne Newport Royall -- Franc̜ois-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand -- John James Audubon -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- John D. Godman -- Washington Irving -- Thomas Cole -- Harriet Martineau -- Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bame-wa-was-ge-zhik-a-quay) (Ojibwa) and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- John Kirk Townsend -- Nicolas Point -- George Catlin -- Lucy Hooper -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- William Cullen Bryant -- Margaret Fuller -- John C. Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont -- George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh) (Ojibwa) -- Henry David Thoreau -- Susan Fenimore Cooper -- Howard Stansbury -- Fredrika Bremer.
Local noteLittle-346289--305131051853Z
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 381-389) and index.
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