The Wilderness Reader.

Edited by Frank Bergon.

ISBN 10: 0451625897 / ISBN 13: 9780451625892

Published by A Mentor Book, New American Library, New York, 1980

About this Item

Anthology full of tales of the American wilderness by explorers and naturalists such as Meriwether Lewis, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, and more. 372 pages, edges spotted. Softcover, mass market paperback.

Seller Inventory # 9837

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wilderness Reader.
• Publisher: A Mentor Book, New American Library, New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451625897
• ISBN 13: 9780451625892
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Good.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature, Environment

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Synopsis

The relationship of wilderness to civilization has been a major preoccupation of poets and novelists from Bryant to Faulkner. The cultural heritage developed out of a great deal of philosophizing, romanticizing and fantasizing about the wilderness. But for all the enthusiasm that accompanied its conquest, we have not necessarily developed an appreciation for the actual phenomenon of wilderness itself - its trees, bogs, snakes, rocks, wolves and dirt. In "The Wilderness Reader", Frank Bergon includes the writings of 26 memorable writers whose personal experiences bring the reader into direct confrontation with nature in all its beauty and power. Taken as a whole, this book offers an eloquent plea for the preservation of a precious, yet ever diminishing, part of our national heritage. "The Wilderness Reader" is an excellent representation of a small but distinctive body of American literature that concerns itself primarily with the wilderness as physical fact. The writers blend emotions with informed observation. Their purpose is literary, for they successfully convey the "experience" of participating firsthand in the life of the wilderness.