Pilgrims to the Wild

ISBN-13: 9780874804126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 186 str.

John P. O'Grady

Opis

"Pilgrims to the Wild "is a survey of American writers who have responded to their encounters with the natural world. Ranging in its treatment from Thoreau s important but neglected essay, 'Walking, ' to the exuberant letters of the young artist Everett Ruess (who disappeared in the Escalante canyonlands), this is a broadly based exploration that brings to bear Eastern and Western classical philosophy, as well as contemporary critical theory, on a distinctive tradition of American Writing those works concerned with the human relationship to the nonhuman world.

In addition to offering a fresh interpretation of classic authors such a Thoreau and Muir, this book introduces readers to the less widely known but equally fascinating writers Clarence King and Mary Austin."