In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

Norman Berg

The eight essays in this volume all deal with the home region of their author; for not only did Mr. Burroughs begin life in the Catskills, and dwell among them until early manhood, but, as he himself declares, he has never taken root anywhere else. Their delectable heights and valleys have engaged his deepest affections as far as locality is concerned, and however widely he journeys and whatever charms he discovers in nature elsewhere, still the loveliness of those pastoral boyhood uplands is unsurpassed. Book jacket.
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Dec 31, 1910
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Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)
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History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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