The Essence of Wilderness: 9 Classic Wildlife Books
Classic Nature Writing on Wildlife, Conservation, Adventure, and the Ethics of the WildBy Alfred Wellesley Rees, William Davenport Hulbert, John Burroughs, William J. Long, Joaquin Miller, William T. Hornaday, Enos A. Mills, Harry Perry Robinson
Length52h 53m
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The Essence of Wilderness: 9 Classic Wildlife Books gathers a capacious body of nature writing in which observation, adventure, zoological description, moral reflection, and regional portraiture converge. Across its nine texts, wilderness appears not as empty scenery but as a living field of animal intelligence, ecological interdependence, danger, and wonder. Scientific attentiveness sits beside lyrical evocation and sporting narrative, while accounts of forests, mountains, plains, and their inhabitants preserve a formative moment in Anglophone wildlife literature. The contributors—Alfred Wellesley Rees, William Davenport Hulbert, John Burroughs, William J. Long, Joaquin Miller, William T. Hornaday, Enos A. Mills, and Harry Perry Robinson—represent varied relations to the natural world: essayists, field observers, conservation advocates, popular naturalists, and literary travelers. Their collective work belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century flowering of American and transatlantic nature writing, when natural history increasingly intersected with public debates over preservation, animal life, and the cultural meaning of wild places. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking multiple historical approaches to wildlife within a single collection. It invites comparison between empirical description and imaginative narrative, between conservationist urgency and contemplative encounter. Students of environmental literature, animal studies, and cultural history will find an illuminating archive, while general readers can rediscover the intellectual and aesthetic richness of classic wilderness writing.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length52 hrs 53 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Wilderness Ways
2Wilderness Ways
3PREFACE.
4III. KAGAX THE BLOODTHIRSTY.
5VI. CLOUD WINGS THE EAGLE.
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6VIII. HUKWEEM THE NIGHT VOICE.
7Ways of Wood Folk
8Ways of Wood Folk
9WAYS OF WOOD FOLK.
10IV. A WILD DUCK.
11VII. CROW-WAYS.
12XI. A FELLOW OF EXPEDIENTS.
13Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers
14Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers
15I
16[p48]VI
17[p98]XI
18[p147]INDEX
19Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals
20Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals
21INTRODUCTION
22THE KING OF THE TROUT STREAM
23POINTERS FROM A PORCUPINE QUILL
24THE ADVENTURES OF A LOON
25THE MAKING OF A GLIMMERGLASS BUCK
26The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations
27The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations
28THE CURTAIN.
29IV
30VIII
31XII
32XIII
33XIV
34XV
35III. THE HIGHER PASSIONS
36XXIII
37BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY
38The Life Story of a Black Bear
39THE LIFE STORY OF A BLACK BEAR
40THE BLACK BEAR
41CHAPTER II CUBHOOD DAYS
42CHAPTER III THE COMING OF MAN
43CHAPTER IV THE FOREST FIRE
44CHAPTER V I LOSE A SISTER
45CHAPTER VI LIFE IN CAMP
46CHAPTER VII THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
47CHAPTER VIII ALONE IN THE WORLD
48CHAPTER IX I FIND A COMPANION
49CHAPTER X A VISIT TO THE OLD HOME
50CHAPTER XI THE TROUBLES OF A FATHER
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