American nature writers / John Elder, editor.| [Gale electronic resource]
Publication Info.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, Macmillan Library Reference USA, Simon & Schuster Macmillan ; London : Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, 1996.
vol. 1. Edward Abbey to John McPhee -- vol. 2. Peter Matthiessen to Western geologists and explorers.
Summary
Provides a history and criticism of the nature writing genre and biographical and critical essays on individual writers, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, and short story writers.