Publisher's Synopsis
A biography of John Burroughs, a nature writer of such popularity and influence that he counted among his friends not only the nature poet Walt Whitman, but President Teddy Roosevelt, a wilderness enthusiast and preservationist himself.;Burroughs' writing, published widely in magazines and books from 1870 to 1922, was both precise in its details and poetic in style. It captured the beauty and wonder of native North American birds, animals and plants for an enormous readership and encouraged Americans to go out into nature and observe for themselves.;The author, a naturalist himself, consulted with Burroughs' granddaughter, who loaned family pictures and provided many memories of her grandfather.
