First published in 1910, 'In the Catskills' is a fantastic selection of essays concerning The Catskill Mountains by American naturalist John Burroughs. Nowhere is a love of Catskill Mountain landscape, its flora and fauna and its people, more beautifully expressed then in these eight essays. Highly recommended for lovers of nature writing and naturalism. Includes a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

3) Canoeing in the wilderness

Author

Thoreau, Henry David

Series

Arcturus Classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817—62) ranks among America's foremost nature writers. The Concord, Massachusetts, native spent most of his life observing the natural world of New England. His thoughts on leading a simple, independent life remain a foundation of modern environmentalism, as captured in Walden, his best-known work. Canoeing in the Wilderness, the 1857 diary of a two-week sojourn in Maine, chronicles the author's...

4) Walden

Author

Thoreau, Henry David

Series

Classics club library
Harper's modern classics
Illustrated modern library
Princeton classics
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Language

English

Appears on list

STO: Local Authors

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway Audiobook, Spoken CD

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"In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau's birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben. 'We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin 'from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house,' he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our...

5) Old-time schools and school-books

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Language

English

6) Historic Hampshire in the Connecticut Valley: happenings in a charming old New England county from the time of the dinosaur down to about 1900

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

Milton Bradley

Pub. Date

Language

English

7) What they say in New England: a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

Lee and Shepard

Pub. Date

1896

Language

English

8) Highways and byways of New England: including the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont and Maine

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Series

American highways and byways volume VII

Publisher

Macmillan and Co

Pub. Date

1915

Language

English

9) The country school in New England

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

D. Appleton

Pub. Date

1893

Language

English

10) What they say in New England: and other American folklore

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

1963

Language

English

11) The tale of a black cat

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

Dodge

Pub. Date

c1917

Language

English

12) The New England country

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

Lee and Shepard

Pub. Date

1893, [1892]

Language

English

13) What they say in New England: Clifton Johnson

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

Dodo Press

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

14) Old-time schools and school-books: With a new introd. by Carl Withers

Author

Johnson, Clifton

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

[1963]

Language

English

Description

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"With rhymes and remarks scribbled in flyleaves and margins, with quaint illustrations from old primers and spellers, and with actual contents of old textbooks, this book maps out a ... history of schools and schooling in America, beginning with the Puritan days ... and ending in the mid-19th century ... There are photographs, too--school houses, books, and ... classroom equipment ... and over 200 illustrations"--Back cover.