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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Editorial Criteria and a Note on the Text | ||
| Pt. I | The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries | |
| Digest of Columbus's Log Book from the First Voyage (1492-1493) | 3 | |
| Narrative of the Third Voyage (1498-1500) | 3 | |
| Mundus Novus (1503) | 9 | |
| De Orbe Novo (1511-1530) | 14 | |
| Natural History of the West Indies (1526) | 22 | |
| The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (1542) | 29 | |
| The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado (c. 1562) | 35 | |
| The Whole and True Discovery of Terra Florida (1563) | 41 | |
| A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia (1588) | 46 | |
| A Description of New England (1616) | 51 | |
| The General History of Virginia (1624) | 51 | |
| New England's Prospect (1634) | 57 | |
| The New English Canaan (1637) | 63 | |
| Meditations Divine and Moral (1664/1867) | 68 | |
| Account of the Second Voyage to New England (1674) | 72 | |
| Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in Several of the American Colonies (1679-1680/1867) | 78 | |
| A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America (1697) | 84 | |
| Pt. II | The Eighteenth Century | |
| The Journal of Madam Knight (1704-1705/1825) | 95 | |
| The History and Present State of Virginia (1705) | 99 | |
| A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) | 105 | |
| The Christian Philosopher (1721) | 110 | |
| "The Spider Letter" (1723) | 117 | |
| "Beauty of the World" (1725) | 117 | |
| "An Essay upon the Natural History of Whales ..." (1724) | 125 | |
| The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1731) | 131 | |
| The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1739-1762/1972) | 137 | |
| Travels into North America (1753-1761) | 143 | |
| "The Kite" (1752) | 149 | |
| "Effect of Oil on Water" (1773) | 149 | |
| "Restoration of Life by Sun Rays" (1773) | 149 | |
| A Lecture on Earthquakes (1755) | 156 | |
| Font's Complete Diary (1775-1776/1933) | 161 | |
| Letters from an American Farmer (1782) | 166 | |
| A Tour in the United States of America (1784) | 172 | |
| Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) | 178 | |
| Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida ... (1791) | 184 | |
| An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith (1799) | 191 | |
| "Introduction to a Course of Lectures on Natural History ..." (1799) | 196 | |
| Pt. III | The Nineteenth Century through Walden | |
| The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1804-1806) | 205 | |
| American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States (1808-1829) | 212 | |
| Travels in the Interior of America ... (1817) | 217 | |
| Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw ... (1821) | 224 | |
| Travels in New England and New York (1821-1822) | 230 | |
| Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains ... (1822-1823) | 236 | |
| A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents, in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave ... (1825) | 242 | |
| Recollections of the Last Ten Years Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi ... (1826) | 247 | |
| Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (1826) | 253 | |
| Travels in America (1827) | 260 | |
| Ornithological Biography (1831-1839) | 266 | |
| "The Uses of Natural History" (1833) | 273 | |
| Rambles of a Naturalist (1833) | 280 | |
| A Tour on the Prairies (1835) | 286 | |
| "Essay on American Scenery" (1836) | 292 | |
| Retrospect of Western Travel (1838) | 298 | |
| Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians (1839) | 303 | |
| Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River ... (1839) | 308 | |
| Recollections of the Rocky Mountains (1840-1847/1967) | 314 | |
| Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians (1841) | 320 | |
| The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry ... (1842) | 325 | |
| "Buds and Bird-Voices" (1843) | 330 | |
| "A New Public Park" (1844) | 336 | |
| Letters of a Traveller ... (1850) | 336 | |
| Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844) | 342 | |
| Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in 1843-1844 (1845) | 347 | |
| The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation ... (1847) | 353 | |
| A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) | 358 | |
| Rural Hours (1850) | 365 | |
| Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah ... (1852) | 371 | |
| The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America (1853) | 375 | |
| Further Reading | 381 | |
| Sources and Credits | 391 | |
| About the Editor | 396 | |
| Index | 397 |
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Ryan Oballe
reviewed Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden on February 07, 2017 Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden
The book itself hasn't dated as much as I expected. While the discussion is still sketchy and simplistic it's true these same topics are still being fearmongered: child abduction, the medicalisation of life, race, youth.
However what I really wanted to read was the new chapter on the post 9/11 world. Sadly this is as shallow as the original book. There's a great quote from Dan Rather on page 234, regarding how, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, to question government became tantamount to treason:
"One finds oneself saying, 'I know the right questions [to ask the Bush administration], but you know what? This is not exactly the right time to ask it.'"
Glassner doesn't discuss this any further, and yet the defining characteristic of the 2000s was how consumers being parted from their dollars by media-highlighted fears segued into citizens being parted from their rights by government-highlighted fears.
Our Prime Minister just pulled this exact crap on Kiwis this week. He's trying to get a bill passed to allow greater surveillance over NZ citizens, and now claims that New Zealanders are being trained by al-Quaeda in Yemen. To which Kiwis universally say, "Hahahahahahahaha," while we still sit and watch this legislation get passed.
So, I think the book (as always) raises interesting ideas,but doesn't take them anywhere. An introduction to the topic, rather than a discussion on it.
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