The Natural World

The great nature writers — Thoreau at Walden, Muir in the Sierra, Burroughs in the woods, Fabre among the insects — observation raised to art.

The earth, closely observed

In this collection

• The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
• A Life of Fear
• The Crow
• To a Stray Fowl
• The Rabbit and the Hare
• Winter Memories
• Slavery in Massachusetts
• The Atlantides
• Time and Change
• The Opossum
• The Cowbird
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• The Skunk
• Wild Life in Winter
• Aulus Persius Flaccus
• Before Beauty
• Glimpses of Wild Life
• Independence
• Concord River
• Wild Apples
• The Partridge
• The Ph[Oe]Be
• Stanzas
• Cape Cod
• The Bobolink
• Sic Vita
• The Wit of a Duck
• Haze
• True Kindness
• Natural History of Massachusetts
• Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China, Volume 1
• Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China, Volume 2
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open
• Forty-Eight Hours

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