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Riverby

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John Burroughs observes flowers, birds, woodland animals, and American landscapes through patient fieldwork and reflective natural-history essays.

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Riverby

Riverby gathers John Burroughs’s observations of wild flowers, birds’ eggs, courtship, chipmunks, hawks, and the changing life of fields and woods. Journeys through the Catskills, the prairie, Kentucky, and Mammoth Cave broaden the collection beyond his familiar surroundings. Nineteen essays combine close attention to animal behaviour with reflections on perception, outdoor experience, and the habits needed to notice the natural world.

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John Burroughs died in 1921. This edition uses the public-domain English original, first published in 1894, from Project Gutenberg; later editorial notes and illustrations are excluded.

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I have often said to myself, "Why should not one name his books as he names his children, arbitrarily, and let the name come to mean much or little, as the case may be?" In the case of the present volume—probably my last collection of Out-of-door Papers—I have taken this course, and have given to the book the name of my place here on the Hudson, "Riverby," by the river, where the sketches were written, and where for so many years I have been an interested spectator of the life of nature, as, with the changing seasons, it has ebbed and flowed past my door.

J. B.

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02PREFATORY NOTE
  3. 03I AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS
  4. 04I
  5. 05II
  6. 06II THE HEART OF THE SOUTHERN CATSKILLS
  7. 07III BIRDS' EGGS
  8. 08IV BIRD COURTSHIP
  9. 09V NOTES FROM THE PRAIRIE
  10. 10VI EYE-BEAMS
  11. 11I A WEASEL AND HIS DEN
  12. 12II KEEN PERCEPTIONS
  13. 13III A SPARROW'S MISTAKE
  14. 14IV A POOR FOUNDATION
  15. 15V A FRIGHTENED MINK
  16. 16VI A LEGLESS CLIMBER
  17. 17VII A YOUNG MARSH HAWK
  18. 18VIII THE CHIPMUNK
  19. 19IX SPRING JOTTINGS
  20. 20X GLIMPSES OF WILD LIFE
  21. 21I
  22. 22II
  23. 23III
  24. 24XI A LIFE OF FEAR
  25. 25XII LOVERS OF NATURE
  26. 26I
  27. 27II
  28. 28XIII A TASTE OF KENTUCKY BLUE-GRASS
  29. 29XIV IN MAMMOTH CAVE
  30. 30XV HASTY OBSERVATION
  31. 31XVI BIRD LIFE IN AN OLD APPLE-TREE
  32. 32XVII THE WAYS OF SPORTSMEN
  33. 33XVIII TALKS WITH YOUNG OBSERVERS
  34. 34I
  35. 35II
  36. 36III
  37. 37IV
  38. 38V
  39. 39VI
  40. 40VII

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