Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America (inscribed)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication in red ink on the front free endpaper: "For Dick + Mary, with affection + gratitude, from Paul, October 1980." Uncommon signed. Brooks was editor-in-chief of Houghton-Mifflin, and in that capacity alone was a great champion of environmental writing. As Rachel Carson's editor, he suggested the title Silent Spring, and he later wrote a book about her. But Brooks was also an accomplished naturalist writer himself and was the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. This is his exploration and homage to his enviro-literary predecessors, with portraits of John Muir, Mary Austin, Rachael Carson, any many others. A fine book in a near fine jacket with sunning to spine. Fine / Near Fine. Item #ABE-1681535447220
ISBN: 0395296102
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