American nature writers
(1996)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, Macmillan Library Reference USA, Simon & Schuster Macmillan ; London : Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1996
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (2 v. (xxiii, 1210 p.)) : ill., ports
ISBN/ISSN
9780684316024 (electronic book)
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
vol. 1. Edward Abbey to John McPhee -- vol. 2. Peter Matthiessen to Western geologists and explorers
Provides a history and criticism of the nature writing genre and biographical and critical essays on individual writers, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, and short story writers