By The Light Of The Glow-worm Lamp

by Manguel, Alberto

• ISBN13: 9780306459924
• ISBN10: 0306459922
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-22
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the keen scientific eye has been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful texts in which not only the world observed but the act of observation itself is set down for the common reader. By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozen works from the past three centuries.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
LANDSCAPE
The Falkland Islands	11	(14)
Charles Darwin
La Pampa	25	(6)
R. B. Cunninghame Graham
The Atlantic Forest	31	(12)
Thomas Belt
The Falls of Niagara	43	(4)
Two Brothers (Anonymous)
Fauna and Flora of Nevada	47	(6)
Mark Twain
Shooting the Rapids in a Batteau	53	(8)
Henry David Thoreau
Heavenly Place	61	(6)
Priscilla Wakefield
Three Natural Disasters	67	(10)
John James Audubon
Hoyle's Mouth	77	(4)
Philip Henry Gosse
Prophetic Autumn	81	(6)
Grant Allen
A Ramble in May	87	(10)
Charles A. Hall
An October Diary	97	(8)
Charles C. Abbot
The Encantadas	105	(6)
Herman Melville
Nightwatch	111	(12)
Annie Dillard
Crusoe's Island	123	(4)
Daniel Defoe
Journal 1866	127	(10)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Flowery Tuscany	137	(14)
D. H. Lawrence
The Marginal World	151	(8)
Rachel Carson
BIRDS
Into the Amazon	159	(22)
Charles Waterton
Birds of Siberia	181	(8)
Henry Seebohm
The Wild Geese of Wyndygoul	189	(6)
Ernest Thompson Seton
The Crows	195	(8)
Richard Jeffries
Why Birds Sing	203	(10)
Jacques Delamain
Bird Lists	213	(4)
John Clare
Bird Watching	217	(12)
Edmund Selous
The Temples of the Hills	229	(12)
W. H. Hudson
King Penguins	241	(8)
Diane Ackerman
BEASTS
The Cat	249	(6)
Edward Topsell
Real Life of the Beaver	255	(8)
John Timbs
The Bonte-Quagga	263	(8)
Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Heller
The Narwhal	271	(22)
Barry Lopez
Monkeys	293	(8)
G. D. Hale Carpenter
INSECTS AND FISH
Three Strokes of a Dagger	301	(6)
J. H. Fabre
The Secret of the Formicary	307	(6)
Maurice Maeterlinck
Butterflies	313	(16)
Vladimir Nabokov
12,000,000 Cod	329	(8)
Gustav Eckstein
Common Fish of an Indian Garden	337	(6)
D. D. Cunningham
Stars of the Earth	343	(12)
L. M. Budgen
Sources	355	(2)
Author Biographies	357	(8)
Index	365