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978-0-89587-151-0
0-89587-151-3
$12.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8"
272 pages
pen-and-ink drawings, index
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The rich and varied landscape
of North Carolina has inspired writers from the earliest colonial days
up to the present. The natural resources of the state astounded early
naturalists such as John Lawson and William Bartram, whose writings
described a world teeming with an almost miraculous assortment of
wildlife, plants, and trees. Over the years, the landscape of North
Carolina has changed, but the beauty of the state's natural habitats
continues to inspire some of the finest nature writers in the United
States.
North Carolina Nature
Writing collects twenty-six of the most famous, important, and
beautiful essays ever written about the natural world of North Carolina.
The essays begin with the writings of the early naturalists, whose
succinct and descriptive reports cannot hide the sense of wonder they
felt at first viewing the state's natural bounty, and continue in
chronological order up to the work of contemporary writers, who maintain
the sense of awe found in those early essays, yet temper it with
concerns about the abuse and destruction of North Carolina's natural
habitats. The essays in North Carolina Nature Writing provide a
fascinating look at the changing landscape of North Carolina's natural
world, and cannot fail to entertain those that have enjoyed that world
for themselves.
about the editor
Outside of his interest in natural conservation, Richard Rankin is a
historian and vice president of institutional advancement at Queens
College in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the author of Ambivalent
Churchmen and Evangelical Churchwomen: The Religion of the Episcopal
Elite in North Carolina, 1800-1860. Rankin received a B.A. from the
University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
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