Bibliographies

Nature Writing Anthologies

compiled by Stephen Norwick

COLLECTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE

Anderson, Lorraine ed., Sisters of the Earth: womens prose and poetry about nature, N.Y.: Vintage Random House, 1991.
A portion of the proceeds from the sales of this book goes to the Green Belt Movement, to pay women in Kenya to plant trees. There is an excellent and extensive annotated bibliography.

Andrews, Roy Chapman, ed., My Favorite Stories of the Great Outdoors: nature lovers treasury. N.Y.: Greystone 1950.

Barbour, Ian G., ed, Western Man and Environmental Ethics. Reading Pa.: Addison, 1973

Baron, Robert C. and Elizabeth Darby Junkin eds., Of Discovery and Destiny: an anthology of American writers and the American land. Golden Colo.: Fulcrum Press, 1986

Bearly, Beverly Simmons, ed., Treat the Earth Gently: the friendship of man and nature in inspiring words and photographs. Kansas City, Missouri: Hallmark 1964

Beebe, William, ed., The Book of Naturalists. an anthology of the best natural history. N.Y.: Knopf  1944

Beres, Nancy, Mitzi Chandler, Russell Dalton, eds., Island of Rivers: an anthology celebrating 50 years of Olympic National Park. Seattle, Wash.: Pacific Northwest National Parks and Forests Association 1988

Bergon, Frank ed., The Wilderness Reader: N.Y.: American Library Publishers, 1980

Bly, Robert  ed., News of the Universe: poems of twofold consciousness. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1980

Borland, Hal  ed., Our Natural World: the land and wildlife of America as seen and described by writers since the county's discovery. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965

Brower, David, ed., Wilderness: America's living heritage. San Francisco: Sierra Club 1961

Collins, Henry Hill  ed., The American Year: nature across America through the four seasons as observed by the great writers. N.Y.: Putnam, no date

Conron, John ed., The American Landscape. N.Y.: Oxford UP, 1974

Cronyn, George W., ed. American Indian Poetry. an anthology of songs and chants. Introduction by Mary Austin. N.Y.: Liveright 1934

Evans, Pauline Rush, ed. Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Nature Stories.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall 1957

Feroe, Paul, ed. Silent Voices: recent American poems on nature. St.Paul Minn.: Ally Press, 1978

Gangewere, Robert J. ed, The Exploited Eden:  literature on the American environment. N.Y.: Harper, 1972

Gilliam, Ann, ed., Voices For The Earth: a treasury of the Sierra Club Bulletin 1893-1977. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1979

Grover, Edwin Osgood ed., The Nature Lover's Knapsack: An anthology of poems for lovers of the open road. N.Y.:Crowell Co. 1927

Halpern, Daniel ed. with advisory editors Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Robert Finch, John Hay, Edward Hoagland, and Barry Lopez, On Nature: Nature, Landscape, and Natural History. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987

Johnson, E.D.H. ed., The Poetry of Earth: a collection of English nature writings from Gilbert White of Selborne to Richard Jefferies. Illustrated by their contemporaries. N.Y.: Atheneum  1966

Kieran, John, ed., John Kieran's Treasury of Great Nature Writing. Edited with comments and biographical notes by ...  N.Y.: Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House 1957

Krutch, Joseph Wood, ed., Great American Nature Writing. N.Y.: Sloane, 1950
----------, The Gardener's World. N.Y.: Putnam's, 1959
----------, The World of Animals: A treasury of lore, legend and literature by great writers and naturalists from the 5th century B.C. to the present.  Illustrated with over 50 drawings, woodcuts, prints and paintings. Compiled with commentary by....  N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1961

de Lanoye, Ferdinand, The Sublime in Nature: complied from the descriptions of travellers and celebrated writers. N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong 1875

Leydet, Francois, ed., Tomorrows's Wilderness. San Francisco: Sierra Club 1963

Lyon, Thomas J. ed. and with a history by...This Incomparable Lande: a book of American Nature Writing.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1989

Muir, John  ed., West of the Rocky Mountains. reprinted recently by Running Press,

Nash, Roderick ed., Environment and Americans.  Melbourne: Krieger, 1979

Peattie, Roderick, ed., The Pacific Coast Ranges. N.Y.: Vanguard, 1946
----------, The Friendly Mountains: Green, White and Adirondacks. N.Y.: Vanguard Press

Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon eds., Earth Prayers: 365 prayers, poems and invocations from around the world for honoring the earth. N.Y.: Harper

Ronald, Ann, ed., Words for the Wild; the Sierra Club trailside reader. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1987

Schwartz, William  ed., Voices for the Wilderness. N.Y.: Ballantine 1969

Scott, J.W. Robertson, ed., A Century of Nature Stories. London: Hutchinson no date

Singleton, Esther ed. and translator, Wonders of Nature: as seen and described by great writers. N.Y.: Dodd 1900

Terres, John K. ed., The Audubon Book of True Nature Stories. Illustrated by Walter W. Furguson. N.Y.: Crowell 1949

Discovery: great moments in the lives of outstanding naturalists. Wood
engravings by Thomas W. Nason. Phila.: Lippincott, 1961

Van Dyke, Henry editor, Poetry of Nature. N.Y.: Doubleday 1911. Many tonalist photographs from nature.

Van Matre, Steve   and Bill Weiler, eds., The Earth Speaks: an acclimatization journal. Warrenville, Ill.: The Institute for Earth Education, 1983

Vermes, Jean,  ed., The Wilderness Sampler. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stockpole, 1968

Whicher, George F. ed., Poetry of the New England Renaissance 1790-1890. N.Y.:  Hold, Rinehart and Winston, 1950

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bennett, G.F. and J.C. Bennett.  Environmental Literature: a bibliography
Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Data Corporation

Durrenberger, Robert W.  Environment and Man: A Bibliography. Palo Alto: National Press Books 1970

Halpern, Daniel ed. with advisory editors Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich,
Robert Finch, John Hay, Edward Hoagland, and Barry Lopez.  On Nature: Nature, Landscape, and Natural History. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987

Swartz, Janey and Duane Toomsen.  Environmental Literature for Young Readers. Environmental Education Coordinator, Iowa Department of Public Instruction, Grimes State Office Building, Des Moines, IA 50319

Waage, Frederick O. ed.  Teaching Environmental Literature: Materials, Methods, Resources. N.Y.: Modern Language Association of Am. 1985