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Birch browsings
a John Burroughs reader
By Burroughs, John & McKibben, Bill
- ISBN
- 978-0-14017-016-0
- Publisher
- New York, NY, U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1992.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 1992
Readers unfamiliar with Burroughs and his work will find Birch Browsings adequate as an introduction to his writing and his life, since Burroughs, one of the fathers of American nature studies, inhabits mightily his essays about hiking and birding and fishing for trout. This upstate New York Renaissance man was a friend and biographer of Walt Whitman, a hugely popular essayist for magazines like the Atlantic , and a friend and colleague of John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt. In short, he was a turn-of-the-century figure as prominent as he was prol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
