By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature Book

Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading, is a wide-ranging reader, and this anthology is the product of years of browsing the shelves in adventure travel and natural history. It includes the usual suspects, among them Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Annie Dillard--who are heavily represented in similar anthologies--but it also includes a few pleasant surprises, such as an essay by Maurice Maeterlinck on ants, Vladimir Nabokov's graceful reflections on lepidoptery, and Jean-Henri Fabre on wasps. The anthology would have benefited from editorial commentary and from a few more such surprises. As it is, though, it's a pleasant book to dip into, marked by Manguel's good taste. --Gregory McNamee Read More

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  • Product Description

    This book represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozenworks from the past three centuries.

  • 0306459922
  • 9780306459924
  • 1 August 1998
  • Perseus Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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