Title & Author:

Mirror of America : literary encounters with the national parks.

Publication:

Washington : National Park Foundation ; Boulder : Roberts Rinehart, [1989]
©1989

Description:

xiv, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Edited by David Harmon"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186).
A meeting in the valley / John Muir -- The shot heard round the world / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Reflected distinction / Henry James -- Old Yellowstone days / Owne Wister -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Ride the Rockies and save your soul / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- On tour through the Yellowstone / Rudyard Kipling -- Divine abyss / John Burroughs -- Two Yosemite poems / Harriet Monroe -- Scrapers of the deep winds / Carl Sandburg -- Gulping the great west / Thomas Wolfe -- A nation's park / George Catlin -- Preservation for all / Frederick Law Olmsted -- Should cars be allowed in Yosemite? / James Bryce -- The factories of Lowell / Charles Dickens -- A second world / Bayard Taylor -- The Hawaii volcanoes / Mark Twain -- The marks of human passage / Wallace Stegner -- Footloose in democracy / Bernard De Voto.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Book review: This anthology presents authors not generally known for their nature writing. Among the essays is Rudyard Kipling's description of a trip through Yellowstone; Charles Dickens's report from Lowell, Massachusetts; and Mark Twain's account of Hawaiian volcanoes. Harriet Moore, Carl Sandburg, and Ralph Waldo Emerson contribute poetry. Other authors include Thomas Wolfe, Wallace Stegner, Henry James, and Bernard De Voto. Many of the essays were written years before the areas described were designated as national parks. The choice of authors sets this book apart from other anthologies, such as the recent This Incomperable Lande ( LJ 4/1/89).

ISBN:

0911797505
9780911797503
0911797513 (pbk.)
9780911797510 (pbk.)

Subject:

National parks and reserves West (U.S.)
Literary landmarks West (U.S.)
Literary landmarks.
National parks and reserves.
Travel.
Literary landmarks / West (U.S.)
National parks and reserves / West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) Description and travel.
États-Unis (Ouest) Descriptions et voyages.
West United States.
West (U.S.) / Description and travel.

Added entries:

Harmon, David, 1958- editor.
Harmon, David, 1958-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293196
Call No.: BIB 237948
Status: Available