• Thumbnail for Nature writing
    Nature writing is nonfiction or fiction prose about the natural environment. It often draws heavily from scientific information and facts while also incorporating...
    15 KB (1,835 words) - 16:48, 15 April 2024
  • rehabilitate after becoming an alcoholic in London. The book combines nature writing with self-reflection. It won her the 2016 Wainwright Prize and the 2017...
    14 KB (1,293 words) - 15:43, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Writing
    Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language. A writing system uses a set of symbols and rules to encode aspects of spoken...
    55 KB (6,455 words) - 22:29, 1 October 2024
  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing is a yearly anthology of popular science magazine articles published in the United States. It was started...
    2 KB (218 words) - 23:41, 27 August 2024
  • outdoors, nature and UK-based travel writing. In 2020 it was split into the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing and the Wainwright Prize for writing on global...
    24 KB (698 words) - 12:28, 27 September 2024
  • bring-your-own-grocery-bags environmental movement writing" nor "the flowing optimism of pure nature writing." The reader is compelled to act and change their...
    15 KB (1,372 words) - 04:22, 9 September 2024
  • the scope of environmental communication. Its roots can be traced to nature writing. One controversy in environmental journalism is, how to distinguish...
    20 KB (2,363 words) - 04:30, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of writing
    of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures...
    88 KB (10,532 words) - 11:04, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victorian literature
    canonical influences on Victorian nature writing. In the UK, Philip Gosse and Sarah Bowdich Lee were two of the most popular nature writers in the early part...
    26 KB (3,026 words) - 16:45, 31 July 2024
  • philosophical aims of ecocriticism, although its scope has broadened from nature writing, romantic poetry, and canonical literature to take in film, television...
    25 KB (3,269 words) - 17:46, 26 September 2024
  • food writing, giving the genre's scope and range when he observes: Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about...
    12 KB (1,847 words) - 19:25, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Raynor Winn
    autobiographical first book, The Salt Path, at once a memoir, a piece of nature writing and a travel book, was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize, and...
    7 KB (660 words) - 11:52, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nature (essay)
    single mechanism through which we can be fully engaged in the world of nature, writing "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber...
    9 KB (1,144 words) - 23:59, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nature fakers controversy
    highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing. The debate involved important American literary, environmental and...
    52 KB (7,732 words) - 22:47, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aldo Leopold
    Aldo Leopold (category American nature writers)
    population and consumption that he was developing for animals. Leopold's nature writing is notable for its simple directness. His portrayals of various natural...
    34 KB (3,897 words) - 18:32, 21 August 2024
  • eventually recognized as an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing, bringing Abbey critical acclaim and popularity...
    28 KB (4,099 words) - 22:23, 5 April 2024
  • brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and nature writing. He fought in the First World War and, having witnessed the Christmas...
    22 KB (2,669 words) - 09:17, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amy Liptrot
    Amy Liptrot (category Scottish nature writers)
    essay on wild swimming to Antlers of Water, a compendium of Scottish nature writing produced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her book The Instant was published...
    8 KB (578 words) - 07:49, 29 September 2024
  • the 1952 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a Burroughs Medal in nature writing. It remained on the New York Times Best Seller List for 86 weeks and...
    6 KB (677 words) - 17:44, 8 December 2023
  • earliest writing was invented during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each writing system invented without prior knowledge of writing gradually...
    36 KB (4,334 words) - 21:06, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Asemic writing
    It may be compared to free writing or writing for its own sake, instead of writing to produce verbal context. The open nature of asemic works allows for...
    21 KB (2,327 words) - 22:00, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gary Snyder
    Bollingen Prize for Poetry and, that same year, the John Hay Award for Nature Writing. Snyder also has the distinction of being the first American to receive...
    42 KB (5,444 words) - 03:33, 12 October 2024
  • Horatio Clare is a Welsh author known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books, and his writing and broadcasting on mental health and psychiatry. He...
    10 KB (981 words) - 12:18, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steve Sailer
    marriage. This article was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker. In 2008, Sailer published his first book...
    22 KB (1,774 words) - 10:44, 30 September 2024
  • Retrieved 10 June 2022. Melissa Harrison on Goodreads Richard Powers and nature writing Open Book, Alex Clark interviews Richard Powers, Melissa Harrison and...
    7 KB (501 words) - 01:18, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elizabeth Kolbert
    Communication. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Essays. Kolbert served as a member of the Bulletin...
    27 KB (2,066 words) - 22:08, 5 October 2024
  • selected to be included in 2014 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing; won a FOLIO award for Best Standalone Digital Consumer Magazine; and...
    16 KB (1,402 words) - 16:05, 9 October 2024
  • Science and Nature Writing The Best Australian Science Writing Cohen, Jesse; Gleick, James, eds. (2000). The best American science writing 2000. New York:...
    5 KB (449 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2024
  • critical nuances and perspectives. Critics argue that persuasive writing, by its nature, is designed to convince the reader of a specific point of view...
    9 KB (1,045 words) - 03:08, 14 June 2024
  • Starting in 1986, additional titles were added for essays, sports writing, nature writing and more, at which time the broader The Best American Series moniker...
    4 KB (473 words) - 23:41, 27 August 2024