By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp

Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature
This anthology, organized into sections on landscape, birds, beasts and insects and fish, celebrates the keen scientific eye that has been translated over and over again 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.

First Edition

New York, Plenum Trade, 1998
Softcover, 373 p.

Selection and introduction by Alberto Manguel

9780306459917

  • Introduction  
  • CHARLES DARWIN: The Falkland Islands
  • R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM: La Pampa
  • THOMAS BELT: The Atlantic Forest
  • TWO BROTHERS (ANONYMOUS): The Falls of Niagara
  • MARK TWAIN: Fauna and Flora of Nevada
  • HENRY DAVID THOREAU: Shooting the Rapids in a Batteau
  • PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD: Heavenly Place
  • JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: Three Natural Disasters
  • PHILIP HENRY GOSSE: Hoyle’s Mouth
  • GRANT ALLEN: Prophetic Autumn
  • CHARLES A. HALL: A Ramble in May
  • CHARLES C. ABBOT: An October Diary
  • HERMAN MELVILLE: The Encantadas
  • ANNIE DILLARD: Nightwatch
  • DANIEL DEFOE: Crusoe’s Island
  • GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: Journal 1867
  • D. H. LAWRENCE: Flowery Tuscany
  • RACHEL CARSON: The Marginal World
  • CHARLES WATERTON: Into the Amazon
  • HENRY SEEBOHM: Birds of Siberia
  • ERNEST THOMPSON SETON: The Wild Geese of Wyndygoul
  • RICHARD JEFFRIES: The Crows
  • JACQUES DELAMAIN: Why Birds Sing
  • JOHN CLARE: Bird Lists
  • EDMUND SELOUS: Bird Watching
  • W. H. HUDSON: The Temples of the Hills
  • DIANE ACKERMAN: King Penguins
  • EDWARD TOPSELL: The Cat
  • JOHN TIMBS: Real Life of the Beaver
  • THEODORE ROOSEVELT & EDMUND HELLER: The Bonte-Quagga
  • BARRY LOPEZ: The Narwhal
  • G. D. HALE CARPENTER: Monkeys
  • J. H. FABRE: Three Strokes of a Dagger
  • MAURICE MAETERLINCK: The Secret of the Formicary
  • VLADIMIR NABOKOV: Butterflies
  • GUSTAV ECKSTEIN: 12,000,000 Cod
  • D. D. CUNNINGHAM: Common Fish of an Indian Garden
  • L. M. BUDGEN: Stars of the Earth
  • Sources  
  • Author Biographies  
  • Index

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