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Title:

Early American nature writers : a biographical encyclopedia / edited by Daniel Patterson ; Roger Thompson and Scott Bryson, contributing editors.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 433 p. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
Nature in literature--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
Authors, American--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
Natural history--United States--Historiography--Dictionaries.
Natural history--United States--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.

Other Authors:

Patterson, Daniel, 1953-
Thompson, Roger, 1970-
Bryson, J. Scott, 1968-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-422) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The rise of American nature writing -- Elizabeth Agassiz / Jennifer Dawes Adkinson -- Louis Agassiz / Christoph Irmscher -- John James Audubon / Deborah Lawrence -- Florence Merriam Bailey / Kandi Tayebi -- John Bartram / Tom J. Hillard -- William Bartram / John D. Cox -- Isabella Lucy Bird / E. Frances Frame -- Neltje Blanchan / Gloria Shearin -- John Bradbury / Alan C. Taylor -- William Byrd II / April D. Gentry -- George Catlin / Angela Courtney -- Susan Fenimore Cooper / Daniel Patterson -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur / Thomas Patchell -- Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet / Kandi Tayebi -- Ralph Waldo Emerson / Elizabeth Addison -- Eliza W. Farnham / Nancy McKinney -- (Thomas) Wilson Flagg / Patricia Kennedy Bostian -- John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont / Kim Leeder -- William Hamilton Gibson / Daniel Patterson -- Chandler Robbins Gilman / David Visser -- John D. Godman / Susan A.C. Rosen -- Louis Hennepin / Winter Elliott -- Francis Higginson / Anne-Marie Libério -- John Edwards Holbrook / Daniel Patteson -- Thomas Jefferson / Patrick M. Erben -- Peter (Pehr) Kalm / Katrina Neckuty -- Clarence King / David Finney -- Thomas Starr King / Daniel Patterson -- Caroline Kirkland / Mary DeJong Obuchowski -- John Lawson / Stuart Noble-Goodman -- Joseph LeConte / Bernie Quetchenbach -- Graceanna Lewis / Patricia Kennedy Bostian -- Meriwether Lewis / Peter T. Kiper -- Olive Thorne Miller / Linda Elizabeth Peterson -- Thomas Nuttall / Michael Ziser -- Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps / Christine Marie Hilger -- John Wesley Powell / James Kraus -- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque / Michael Ziser -- Captain Charles Melville Scammon / Daniel Patterson -- Henry Rowe Schoolcraft / Donald M. Hassler -- George Washington Sears / Tom Murphy -- Annie Trumbull Slosson / Rebecca Tolley-Stokes -- Celia Laighton Thaxter / Jessie Ravage -- Edith M. Thomas / Kevin De Ornellas -- Henry David Thoreau / Bryan L. Moore -- Bradford Torrey / Kevin E. O'Donnell -- John Kirk Townsend / Michael P. Branch -- Mary (Davis) Treat / Tina Gianquitto -- Alexander Wilson / Michael Ziser -- Theodore Winthrop / Paul Lindholdt -- Elizabeth C. Wright / Daniel Patteson -- Mabel Osgood Wright / Melissa Moore.

ISBN:

0313346801 (alk. paper)
9780313346804 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)156822204

LCCN:

2007027958

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)