From Blue Ridge to Barrier Islands: An Audubon Naturalist ReaderFrom John Smith to Tom Horton—a collection of nature writing about the mid-Atlantic region From Blue Ridge to Barrier Islands offers the first collection of nature writing to focus specifically on the attractions of the central Atlantic region. The selections draw on all the outdoor experiences that have brought people closer to the land: exploration, science, travel, country life, conservation, hunting, fishing. Here are Walt Whitman's musings on bird migrations at midnight; John Lederer's account of the first recorded expedition, with native guides, to the summit of the Blue Ridge mountains; Pendleton Kennedy's reflections on a nineteenth-century fishing trip to Blackwater River; and Tom Horton on serious dangers the Potomac continues to face. From the awe and wonder of the first explorers to cries for conservation from contemporary writers, From Blue Ridge to Barrier Islands gathers examples of our changing views of the natural world and the values we place upon it. |
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Table des matières
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Views of the Blue Ridge and the Shenandoah Valley | 93 |
Crossing the Cumberland Mountains | 127 |
The White House by Moonlight Birds Migrating at Midnight | 147 |
Where Now Will You Look for Birds? | 162 |
Fernalds Ecstasy Fernalds Chagrin | 241 |
A National Wildlife Refuge | 258 |
Spring in Washington | 271 |
The Chesapeake Marshes | 286 |
O Canal | 304 |
Fire Tower | 323 |
Heaven and Earth in Jest and The Present | 352 |
Beautiful Swimmer | 375 |
Cobbs Island | 178 |
Outdoors and Indoors | 202 |
A Trip to the Dismal Swamp | 206 |
Birds and Magnolia Bogs | 221 |
Thirtyfive Years in Suburbia | 411 |
Index | 425 |
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Page 17 - In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song. Song of the bleeding throat, Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die...
Page 356 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a...
Page 12 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Page 207 - They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. "And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree, When the footstep of Death is near.
Page 70 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet and peep over it.
Page 73 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject, informed him that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, "That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bigbone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals, which had been created for the use of the Indians: that...
Page 72 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between...
Page 43 - Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places of Europe, Asia, Africa, or America, for large and pleasant navigable rivers, heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for mans habitation...
Page 12 - I will pass by, but not those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. As first, the Lark, when she means to rejoice, to cheer herself and those that hear her, she then quits the earth, and sings as she ascends higher into the air; and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad to think she must descend to the...
Page 72 - ... THE passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge, is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | From Blue Ridge to Barrier Islands: An Audubon Naturalist Reader |
| Rédacteurs | J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White |
| Édition | illustrée, révisée |
| Éditeur | JHU Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 080186531X, 9780801865312 |
| Longueur | 328 pages |
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