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Speaking for Nature: The Literary Naturalists, from Transcendentalism to the Birth of hte American Environmental Movement - Paul Brooks, Linda Lear
Speaking for Nature: The Literary Naturalists, from Transcendentalism to the Birth of the American Environmental Movement - Paul Brooks, Linda Lear
 
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Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200-year history of the country's movement toward conservation. Profiles of leaders in the fight to protect the environment and safeguard our natural heritage include Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, John Muir, William Beebe, and many others. With a new foreword by Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature.
Dover Publications, 1980, 2014. Paperback, 304 pp.

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