American Nature Writers: Volume I- Edward Abbey to John McPhee & Volume II- Peter Mathiessen to Western Geologists and Explorers

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. Comprehensive two-volume reference text contains a collection of history and criticism of the nature writing genre and 70 biographical and critical essays devoted to individual writers. These scholarly analyses consider different works and authors from a nature perspective; more than a third of the essays are devoted to contemporary authors.Includes sections on African-Americans, writing, and nature; bioregionalism in nature writing; Canadian nature writing in English; contemporary ecofiction; early romantic natural history literature; the forms of American nature poetry; literary theory and nature writing; literature of mountaineering; modern birdwatching literature; nature in Native American literatures; new voices in American nature writing; western geologists and explorers: Clarence King and John Wesley Powell. 1210 pgs. Note: Heavy Items.. First Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.