By The Light Of The Glow-worm Lamp - Couverture rigide

Manguel, Alberto

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0306459914 ISBN 13 : 9780306459917

Editeur : Basic Books, 1998

Synopsis

From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the perceptions of the keen scientific eye have been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful texts for the common reader. By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozen works from the past three centuries.Alberto Manguel, a great reader and literary connoisseur, serves here as our guide. First outlining a "literary" history of nature writing, he organizes this anthology into four sections: Landscape, Birds, Beasts, and Insects and Fish. He includes authors who did not train as scientists (D.H. Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov). There are zoologists (John James Audubon), conservationists (Rachael Carson), the great classic figures (Charles Darwin and J. H. Fabre), and well-known contemporary writers (Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez). A cornucopia of the marvelous and the earthbound, By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp will take its place alongside the more popular prose anthologies of our time.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the keen scientific eye has been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful texts in which not only the world observed but the act of observation itself is set down for the common reader. By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozen works from the past three centuries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0306459914
• ISBN 13: 9780306459917
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 373
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible