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Full introduction to the chapter Go

Selections in this chapter:

• Matsuo Basho, from “Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling” (1691), translated by Donald Keene, [678] Go
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782–84), [680] Go
• Gilbert White, from The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne in the County of Southampton (1789), [682] Go
• William Wordsworth, from Guide to the Lakes (1810), [684] Go
• Eliza Farnham, from Life in Prairie Land (1846), [685] Proceed to Reading. Go
• Henry David Thoreau, from “The Bean-Field” in Walden (1854) and from “Ktaadn” (1848) in The Maine Woods (1864), [686]Go
• Aldo Leopold, from “Thinking Like a Mountain” in A Sand County Almanac (1949), [689] Go
• John Steinbeck, from The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1941, revised 1951), [692] Go
• Annie Dillard, “Teaching a Stone to Talk” (1982), [693] Go
• Gretel Ehrlich, from “On Water” in The Solace of Open Spaces (1985), [698] Go
• John Elder, from “Succession” in Reading the Mountains of Home (1998), [700] Go