Introduction / New England: Gateway to American Nature Writing --
Penobscot to Cape Cod (1616) / John Smith --
Hurrican and Earthquake (1651) / William Bradford --
Secondly, of Beasts (1672) / John Josselyn --
Of the Rainbow (1710s) / Jonathan Edwards --
Frogs and Caterpillars (1781) / Samuel Peters --
River Caves (1800) / Timothy Dwight --
Account of a Meteor (1810) / Benjamin Silliman --
Domestic Economy (1817) / Noah Webster --
The Whale's Revenge (1821) / Owen Chase --
Excursion from Providence to Bristol (1840) / Charles T. Jackson --
Ktaadn (1848) / Henry David Thoreau --
The Great Stone Face (1850) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Nature (1850) / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Descriptive and Physical Geography (1853) / Zadock Thompson --
Pleasure of Winter (1854) / Lydia Sigourney --
he Fairy Flower (1854) / Lousia May Alcott --
Sounds of Inanimate Nature (1857) / Wilson Flagg --
Katahdin (1863) / Theodore Winthrop --
Water Lilies (1863) / Thomas Wentworth Higginson --
Destructiveness of Man (1864) / George Perkins Marsh --
Hiding in the Woods (1864) / James Mars
Advertising in Nature (1865) /
Natural History (1866) / James Gates Percival --
A Good Word for Winter (1871) / James Russell Lowell --
Elm Trees (1873) / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Bird and Lighthouse (1873) / Celia Thaxter --
Bluefish off Nantucket (1875) / Samuel Adams Drake --
New England Weather (1876) / Mark Twain --
The Sugar Camp (1877) / Charles Dudley Warner --
Going A-Chestnutting (1878) / Harriet Beecher Stowe --
Sea Urchins (1879) / Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz --
Hunting for Nests (1880) / Amanda Bartlett Harris --
Hunting and Trapping (1882) / Fred C. Baker and John S. Danforth --
Moose Hunting (1882) / Thomas Sedgwick Steele --
Loons (1884) / Lucius Hubbard --
The City and Rural Scenery (1886) / Frederick Law Olmsted --
The White Rose Road (1889) / John Boyle O'Reilly --
Canoeing on the Connecticut (1890) / John Boyle O'Reilly --
The Sea in a Snowstorm (1891) / Frank Bolles --
Night Witchery (1891) / William Hamilton Gibson --
Clearwater and Woods Hospitality (1891) / Fannie Hardy Eckstorm --
Fishing for Trout (1892) / William Cowper Prime --
Trees and Their Leaves (1893) / Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey --
A Song of Summer (1894) / Mabel Osgood Wright --
Up Tripyramid in Snow Shoes (1895) / Isaac Chubuck --
Flowers in the Waste Places (1895) / W. Whitman Bailey --
Canoeing Down the Androscoggin (1898) / George Elmer Browne --
Purpose in Devices of Plants (1902) / Ellen Russell Emerson --
The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves (1906) / Gifford Pinchot --
The Seeing Hand (1908) / Hellen Keller --
Starkfield (1911) / Edith Wharton --
Ipswich Shore (1913) / Charles Wendell Townsend --
Landscape Painting (1914) / Henry Ward Ranger --
Mount Hope (1915) / Clifton Johnson --
Spring Day (1916) / Amy Lowell --
The White Mountains (1917) / Louise C. Hale --
The Queen of the Swamp (1920) / Walter Prichard Eaton --
Ascutney (1920) / Percy Goldthwait Stiles --
The Beauty of the World (1920) / W. E. B. Du Bois --
Introduction, Review of Present Conditions and Recommendations for the Future (1921) / Frederic C. Walcott