In the Catskills and My Boyhood (New York Classics)

Burroughs, John/ Renehan, Edward (INT)

Excelsior Editions（2022/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438485706
• DDC分類 508.092

Full Description

Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.

Henry James called John Burroughs (1837-1921) "a more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau." Walt Whitman in turn extolled Burroughs as "a child of the woods, fields, hills-native to them in a rare sense (in a sense almost a miracle)." Throughout his many books and essays, Burroughs was never more eloquent on nature themes than when writing about his native countryside: the woods, streams, and mountains of the Catskills in New York. In the Catskills collects the very best of Burroughs's writings about his birthplace in a book that is sure to be treasured by all lovers of the region as well as lovers of the literature of nature. This new edition includes an introduction by Burroughs biographer Edward Renehan and an additional work not included in previous editions, entitled My Boyhood.

Contents

New Introduction
Edward Renehan

In the Catskills

Illustrations

Introduction

I. The Snow-Walkers

II. A White Day and a Red Fox

III. Phases of Farm Life

IV. In the Hemlocks

V. Birds'-Nests

VI. The Heart of the Southern Catskills

VII. Speckled Trout

VIII. A Bed of Boughs

My Boyhood