The height of our mountains : nature writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley

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The height of our mountains : nature writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley

edited by Michael P. Branch & Daniel J. Philippon ; foreword by John Elder

John Hopkins University Press, 1998

  • : pbk.

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"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-408) and index

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ISBN 9780801856327

内容説明

"The height of our mountains", wrote Thomas Jefferson in his "Notes on the State of Virginia", 'has not yet been estimated with any degree of exactness'. In this sweeping anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing from the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Michael P. Branch and Daniel J. Philippon take the full measure of this rich natural and literary landscape. Beginning with Captain John Smith's eager gaze westward in search of gold and ending with contemporary essayinst John Daniel's trtansformative gaze inward in search of wilderness, "The height of our mountains" collects the work of 70 of the nation's finest writers on nature since 1607. This wide-ranging survey includes colonial narratives by Robert Beverly, William Byrd, and George Washington; natural history writings by John Bartram, Mark Catesby, and John James Audubon; travel narratives by King Louis Philippe of France, James Kirke Paulding, and Caroline Gilman; diaries of memoirs by Cornelia Peake McDonald, Walt Whitman,and John Burroughs; fiction by William Gilmore Simms, Ellen Glasgow, and Villa Cather; speeches by James Madison, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Roosevelt; and contemporary nature essays by Donald Culross Paettie, Edwin Way Teale; Roger Tory Ppeterson, Annie Dillard, Peter Svenson, and Jake Page. The book also includes a critical introduction to the character and form of nature writing, the concepts of place and bioregionalism, and the literary natural history of the Blue Ridge region, as well as detailed notes to the selection and an extensive bibliographical essay. Illustrated with historical paintings, drawings, engravings, and maps.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780801856914

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This is an anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing about one of America's premier regions-the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Beginning with Captain John Smith's eager gaze westward in search of gold and ending with contemporary essayist John Daniel's transformative gaze inward in search of wilderness, The Height of our Mountains features the work of seventy of the nation's finest writers on nature, from 1607 to 1997. Responding to Thomas Jefferson's claim in Notes on the State of Virginia that "the height of our mountains has not yet been estimated with any degree of exactness," Branch and Philippon have gathered a diverse collection of written perspectives on the region in an effort to "measure" the remarkable richness of this landscape through a variety of literary forms and styles. The result is a wide-ranging survey that includes the colonial narratives of William Byrd and George Washington, as well as the natural histories of John Bartram and John James Audubon; the travel narratives of King Louis Philippe of France and the diaries and memoirs of Cornelia Peake McDonald, Walt Whitman, and John Burroughs; works of fiction by Edgar Allen Poe and Willa Cather; speeches by James Madison, Herbert Hover, and Franklin Roosevelt; and contemporary writings by Donald Culcross Peattie, Edwin Way Teale, Roger Tory Peterson, Annie Dillard, Donald McCaig, Peter Svenson, and Jake Page. The book contains a lengthy and detailed introduction on the character and form of nature writing, the concepts of place and bioregionalism, and the literary natural history of the Blue Ridge country itself. Ample notes, beautiful illustrations and amps, and a lengthy bibliography make this book a lasting treasure.

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