Description:
Title: The Writings of John Burroughs
Author: Burroughs, John
Place Published: Boston
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published: [1904]
Description: 23 volumes. (Small 8vo) original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. The Riverby Edition. John Burroughs (1837–1921) was an American nature writer and acolyte of Walt Whitman. He brought a scientific rigor to the literature of the wild denouncing the sentimentality and anthropomorphism of such writers as Ernest Thompson Seton in the 1904 essay Real and Sham Natural History. A few years earlier he had been the official historian of the Harriman Expedition to Alaska
Condition: Light wear only; very good to near fine.
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