On Nature: Selected Essays

by Edward Hoagland

Overview

Annie Dillard observes "The best of Edward Hoagland is the best in the land." Now, in a beautiful new hardcover edition, signed by the author, and including new material, comes the best observations on nature by the finest essayist of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493006120
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/07/2014
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

EDWARD HOAGLAND, one of America's most distinguished writers, is the author of numerous books, including Walking the Dead Diamond River, The Courage of Turtles, Red Wolves and Black Bears, African Calliope, Tugman's Passage, Balancing Acts, Tigers & Ice and Compass Points. He lives in Bennington,Vermont and in Edgartown, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword Gretel Ehrlich ix

Pity Earth's Creatures xiii

I Animals

The Courage of Turtles 5

The War in the Woods 13

Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion 35

Howling Back at the Wolves 51

Bears, Bears, Bears 59

Lament the Red Wolf 87

Nature's Seesaw 131

Wild Things 135

Behold Now Behemoth 181

II Places

Of Cows and Cambodia 195

Walking the Dead Diamond River 211

Mountain Notch 229

Up the Black to Chalkyitsik 233

In Okefenokee 289

O Wyoming 307

Wowlas and Coral 327

I Have Seen the Elephant 351

A Peaceable Kingdom 389

Earth's Eye 395

Natural Light 401

III People

In Praise of John Muir 433

About H.D. Thoreau 449

Abbey's Road 459

Ansel Adams at 100 467

Selborne's Sage 471

Writing Wild 485

About the Author 491

Editorial Reviews

"The best essayist of my generation."—John Updike"America's most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist."—Philip Roth"One of the very best writers of his generation."—Saul Bellow"Edward Hoagland is a strong, solid writer with a splendid feel for the intricacy, queerness and stubborn pertinacity of life. He is also, so far as I know, the best essayist working in our perishing republic."—Edward Abbey "Hoagland is our wild world's literary virtuoso."—Annie Proulx"The Thoreau of our time, an essayist so intensely personal, so sharp-eyed and deep-sighted, so tender and tough, lyrical and elegiac, as to transmute a simple stroll into a full-blown mystical experience."—Washington Post "The best of Edward Hoagland is the best in the land."—Annie Dillard"Hoagland, one of the few American writers who has forged a brilliant career out of essays, is our Chopin of the genre."—Joyce Carol Oates"One of the best celebrants of the natural world."—The Atlantic"Hoagland is surely one of our most truthful writers about nature . . ."—The New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

"One of the best celebrants of the natural world."

The Atlantic

The best of Edward Hoagland is the best in the land.”

Annie Dillard

Hoagland is our wild world’s literary virtuoso.”

Annie Proulx

One of the very best writers of his generation.”

Saul Bellow

America’s most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist.”

Philip Roth

Hoagland, one of the few American writers who has forged a brilliant career out of essays, is our Chopin of the genre.”

Joyce Carol Oates

"Hoagland is surely one of our most truthful writers about nature. . ."

The New York Times Book Review

The best essayist of my generation.”

John Updike

Edward Hoagland is a strong, solid writer with a splendid feel for the intricacy, queerness and stubborn pertinacity of life. He is also, so far as I know, the best essayist working in our perishing republic.”

Edward Abbey

The Thoreau of our time, an essayist so intensely personal, so sharp-eyed and deep-sighted, so tender and tough, lyrical and elegiac, as to transmute a simple stroll into a full-blown mystical experience.”

Washington Post