Essays on nature and landscape / / Susan Fenimore Cooper ; edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson ; foreword by John Elder

• Autore: Cooper Susan Fenimore <1813-1894.>
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Disciplina: 508
• Soggetto topico: Country life; Natural history
• Altri autori: JohnsonRochelle PattersonDaniel <1953->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Foreword by John Elder vii -- Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction xiii -- Editorial Principles xxxiii -- A Dissolving View 3 -- Introduction to John Leonard Knapp's Country Rambles in England; or, Journal of a Naturalist 17 -- Introduction to The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life: Or, Selections from Fields Old and New 24 -- Preface to the 1868 edition of RuralHours 45 -- Later Hours 47 -- Village Improvement Societies 64 -- Otsego Leaves I: Birds Then and Now 78 -- Otsego Leaves II: The Bird Mediaeval 87 -- Otsego Leaves III: The Bird Primeval 97 -- A Lament for the Birds -- Emendations 115 -- Textual Notes 19 -- Explanatory Notes 12I -- Index I29.
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of ten pieces by Cooper that represent her best nature writing and the fullest articulation of her environmental principles. Includes independent essays, miscellaneous introductions and prefaces, and the first three installments from her work of literary ornithology, "Otsego Leaves," arguably her most fully realized contribution.
• Titolo autorizzato: Essays on nature and landscape
• ISBN: 1-282-91953-9; 9786612919534; 0-8203-2635-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827687403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II