From the eighteenth floor. (nature writing)(World Views: New Writing About Nature)

From: The Literary Review | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Books such as Raymond Williams' 'The Country and the City,' Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Forests,' and Simon Schama's 'Landscape and Memory,' examine man's relationship with nature. These books provide a literary view of nature just as insightful as the more well-known works of nature writers such as Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, and Henry Thoreau. While Schama's book celebrates nature, Williams and Harrison explore and lament the disappearance of farmers and forests, respectively.

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A Relationship with Nature

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