Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the power of place
  • Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place
  • Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism
  • Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine
  • Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination
  • The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist
  • The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century
  • Conclusion : the place of elegy.