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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Character and Form of Nature Writing | |
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| Region, Bioregion, and Place | |
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| A Literary Natural History | |
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| Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement (1607-1815) | |
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| "The Description of Virginia," from A Map of Virginia | |
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| [Blandina River], from The Discoverie of New Brittaine | |
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| "The First Expedition," from The Discoveries of John Lederer | |
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| [We Supposed There to Be a Great Bay], from A Journal from Virginia | |
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| [All I Have Yet Observed], from "Letter to Dr. Robert Morison" | |
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| "Of the Earths, and Soil," from The History and Present State of Virginia | |
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| [The Spotswood Expedition], from The Journal of John Fontaine | |
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| [A Prospect of the Mountains], from The History of the Dividing Line | |
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| [The Largest Landscape That Ever My Eyes Beheld], from Journal of a Trip to Maryland and Virginia | |
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| "Of the Soil" and "Of the Water," from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands | |
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| A Journal of My Journey over the Mountains | |
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| [Over the Pignut and Blue Ridges] and [Some Natural Curiosities], from Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America | |
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| [North River], from The Journal of Philip Vickers Fithian | |
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| [The Opossum], [The Tick], [The Firefly], [The Persimmon], [The Turkey Buzzard], [The Dogwood], and [The Tulip Tree], from Travels through the Interior Parts of America | |
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| "Query IV: A Notice of Its Mountains?" and "Query V: Its Cascades and Caverns?" from Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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| [Old Master], from Memoirs of a Monticello Slave | |
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| [Enniscorthy], [Monticello], [Up the Blue Mountains], [Staunton], and [Crossing Middle River], from Voyage into the United States of America | |
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| [Beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains], from Journal of My Voyage | |
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| [The Peaks of Otter], [East and West of the Blue Ridge], and [The Shenandoah Valley], from Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada | |
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| [The Countryside Monotonous and Indifferently Farmed], from Diary of My Travels in America | |
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| An Emerging Sense of Place (1816-1928) | |
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| [Sketch of a Mountain Landscape], from Letters from the South | |
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| [Errors in Our Husbandry], from "Address to the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, Virginia" | |
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| [Say's Phoebe], from Ornithological Biography | |
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| "Passage across the Alleganies," "Scarcity of Birds in North America," "Sweet Springs," and "White Sulphur Springs," from Narrative of a Tour in North America | |
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| [There Is a Singular Joyousness in a Wilderness], from A Winter in the West | |
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| "Climbing the Natural Bridge" | |
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| "Weyer's Cave," from The Poetry of Travelling in the United States | |
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| [The Student's Account of His Visit to the House Mountain], from Judith Bensaddi | |
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| [The Sublime and the Beautiful], from Life of the Rev. William Graham | |
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| [Harper's Ferry Disappointed Me], from Southward Ho! | |
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| [Ascent of South Peak], from Virginia Illustrated | |
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| [The Landscape Spread before Me] and [Yankee Pollution], from The Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck | |
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| [What a Harvest Death Has Reaped] and [A World of Sweet Repose], from The Diary of Cornelia Peake McDonald | |
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| "Virginia," from Memoranda during the War | |
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| [Our March up the Shenandoah Valley], from Three Years in the Sixth Corps | |
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| [The Burning], from A Boy of Old Shenandoah | |
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| [An Episode on Rumbling Creek], from Sketches from Old Virginia | |
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| [The Precincts of a Holy Place], from A World of Green Hills | |
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| [No Thought for the Future], from Report on the Forests and Forest Conditions of the Southern Appalachian Region | |
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| "The Hawk's Nest," from Memory Days | |
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| "Small Country Neighbors," from Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter | |
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| "With Roosevelt at Pine Knot," from Under the Maples | |
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| [Mountains Rose around Them], from The Great Valley | |
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| Preservation and Loss (1929-1997) | |
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| "Address at Madison Courthouse" | |
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| "An Essay on Virginia," from A Novelette and Other Prose, 1921-1931 | |
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| [The Oversoul of Appalachian Virginia], from Vein of Iron | |
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| "Address at the Dedication of Shenandoah National Park" | |
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| [Mill House on Back Creek], from Sapphira and the Slave Girl | |
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| "The Northern Hardwood Groves" and "The Appalachian Forest Formation," from The Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge | |
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| "The Passing Show," from Wild Wings | |
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| "Hunting Bee-Trees," from Tales, of Quails'n Such | |
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| "May at Monticello," from North with the Spring | |
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| "Down the Blue Ridge," from Wild America | |
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| [Death of the Chestnuts], from The Blue Ridge | |
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| [On Spencer's Mountain], from The Homecoming | |
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| "A Spring Visit," from The Woods | |
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| "Heaven and Earth in Jest," from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | |
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| "The Forest Floor," from The Southern Appalachians | |
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| "Elements of the North," from The Nature of Shenandoah | |
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| "The Passage of the Potomac," from The Blue Ridge | |
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| [On the Appalachian Trail], from Appalachian Odyssey | |
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| "A Walk in the Forest Primeval" | |
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| "Blue Ridge Complex," from A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge | |
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| "A Mushroom House and Frogs Singing," from Once There Was a Farm | |
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| [August in Orchard Gap], from Simple Living | |
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| "The Fine Art of Tree Farming" | |
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| "Marginal Stability," from Songs to Birds | |
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| "Upriver," from "Ridge, Valley, and River" | |
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| [President of the Pond], from Preservation | |
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| "Boulder Dance" | |
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| Appendix of Literary Forms | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |