Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture

By Scott P. Slovic, Lorraine Anderson, John P. O'Grady, et al.

Book Overview

Exploring our relationship to nature and the role literature can play in shaping a culture responsive to environmental realities, this thematic, multi-genre anthology includes early writers such as John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Mary Austin, contemporary luminaries such as Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams, and newer voices such as Michael Pollan and Sandra Steingraber.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205229352
• ISBN13: 9780205229352
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book

Although I haven't read all of this book, I have really enjoyed what I have read. This was assigned in a Nature & Culture college class. It has wonderful poetry and short stories. I definitely recommend it for personal enjoyment

Thinking person book

Anyone that loves good literature, appreciates our beautiful country. My son really appreciated receiving this book as a gift.

Excellent for teaching

Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture has been an invaluable resource and platform for discussion in my high school literature class that centers around the natural world and man's place in it. The essays, poems, and excerpts avoid groupthink, polarization of issues, and are, for the most part, accessible to students.