"The definitive collection of prose masterpieces on nature, fully revised and expanded. At once enthralling and enlightening, these essays present nature in all the incarnations—prickly, chaotic, generous, cruel, mysterious, and heartbreaking—that have inspired men and women to celebrate it in words. Containing over fifty new selections by more than forty new writers, this second edition reflects the extraordinary popularity the genre ha ..."
Death of a Hornet(Updated) and Other Cape Cod Essays by RobertFinch, David Finch Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-138-3, ISBN: 1-58243-138-8
"Spanning more than 20 years, these essays record changes not only in the natural environment of Cape Cod but in the writer's own life. Death of a Hornet is one man's elegant rendering of Cape Cod, a sandy, scrub-oaked, tough, and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. These stories are "natural adventures" that Finch's previous readers have come to expect, as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape's ..."
"A photographic tour of the natural wonders and seasonal recreational opportunities of southern New England encompasses more than two hundred sites of ecological and geographical significance in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Original. 35,000 first printing."
Death of a Hornet(1st Edition) And Other Cape Cod Essays by RobertFinch, David Finch Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Harpercollins Canada / Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-049-2, ISBN: 1-58243-049-7
"Cape Cod, Massachusetts, like every other place, is but a small corner of the planet. Yet it contains multitudes, as the nature writer and editor Robert Finch demonstrates in this lively set of essays. In the title piece, which opens the book, he muses on a fellow occupant of his study, a spider that, one day, does in a yellow hornet that has incautiously wandered into her web. There is no cruelty in the spider's act, Finch notes, only ..."
Edge of the Jungle(1st Edition) by William Beebe, RobertFinch Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Cooper Square Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8154-1160-4, ISBN: 0-8154-1160-X
"Naturalist and world explorer William Beebe served as the director of the New York Zoological Society's Tropical Research Station in British Guiana (present day Guyana) in the years following World War I, during which time he kept extensive records of the wildlife in the Amazon rain forest. Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and meditative essays by Beebe on the destructive and comical activities of army ants and their leaf-cutt ..."
""The goal of this guide is to aid students and teachers in thinking about and responding to the readings of the Norton Book Of Nature Writing. It can be used in many ways. Like most field guides, it groups materials by classifications, starting with a thematic table of contents. It also includes study questions for each selection."
A Field Guide to the Norton Book of Nature Writing Paperback
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"Robert Finch, Cape Cod naturalist and author of Common Ground (Godine, 1981) and The Primal Place, returns to the Outer Beach and to the fragile peninsula he's made his own.On fog-shrouded barrier island or deep in winter woods, Robert Finch is a vivid witness to our participation, whether as individuals or as communities, in the mysteries of natural experience.There are moments in Outlands where this investment of self in the land is d ..."
The Book of Secrets(1st Edition) The Way to Wealth and Success : A Fable by Robert J. Petro, Therese A. Finch Hardcover, 186 Pages, Published 1997 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-251478-3, ISBN: 0-06-251478-4