A Treasury of American Nature Writing
In light of the recent surge of interest in the writings of American naturalists brought about by the premiere of Ken Burns’ and Dayton Duncan’s latest documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, the Library of America is offering the Treasury of American Nature Writing, a set featuring six of their superbly printed and expertly bound nature-oriented volumes for a special price of $50.00 off the ordinary combined total price of the works purchased separately. Included in the set are:
- American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
- John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings
- William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings
- John Muir: Nature Writings
- Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
- Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems
Were it not for the fact that I already own each and every one of the volumes offered in this set I would leap at this opportunity to acquire all of them at once. To those find their bookshelves still devoid of these volumes, or who have a special person on their holiday gift list who would appreciate such a generous gift, I highly recommend taking advantage of this offer at the earliest opportunity.
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I’ve checked out the Audubon volume from the library before, but I can’t believe I didn’t know about the other volumes. The Thoreau and Muir volumes are definitely going on my wishlist, and probably Bartram as well.
I was just curious and checked out the prices on Amazon. And you can get all of them individually for $146.07.