Eric D. Lehman - New England Nature: Centuries of Writing on the Wonder and Beauty of the Land

David K. Leff is an award-winning essayist, former deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and poet laureate, town meeting moderator, and historian of Canton, Connecticut. He is the author of six nonfiction books, three volumes of poetry, and two novels in verse, including The Breach: Voices Haunting a New England Mill Town. His 2016 travel adventure, Canoeing Maines Legendary Allagash: Thoreau, Romance and Survival of the Wild, won a silver medal in the Nautilus Book Awards for memoir and a silver medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards for regional nonfiction. Another Thoreau-oriented book, Deep Travel: In Thoreaus Wake on the Concord and Merrimack, was published in 2009 by the University of Iowa Press. In 201617 the National Park Service appointed David poet-in-residence for the New England National Scenic Trail (NET). His journals, correspondence, and other papers are archived at the University of Massachusetts Libraries in Amherst.

Eric D. Lehman is an associate professor at the University of Bridgeport and the author or editor of nineteen books, including seven from Globe Pequot Press: Insiders Guide to Connecticut, A Connecticut Christmas, Connecticut Waters, Connecticut Town Greens, Quotable New Englander, Yankees New England Adventures, and New England at 400: From Plymouth Rock to Present Day. His biography of Charles Stratton, Becoming Tom Thumb, won the Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America and was chosen as one of the American Library Associations outstanding university press books of the year. His novella, Shadows of Paris, was the Novella of the Year in the Next Gen Indie Book Awards, won a Silver Medal for Romance in the Foreword Review Indie Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award.

We would like to thank Laura Caserta, Taleesa Scott, and David and Trena Lehman for their editing advice, as well as the University of Bridgeports Magnus Wahlstrom Library and the Eli Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum. Special thanks to Becky Fullerton, Archivist, Appalachian Mountain Club, for assistance finding documents in the clubs early journals and library collection; Elizabeth Van Ness, Reference and Adult Services Librarian at Canton Public Library, for tracking down books, articles, and obscure biographical facts; and our wives, Mary C. Fletcher and Amy Nawrocki, for their encouragement and ideas.

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary. A First Lesson in Natural History. Boston: Ginn D. C. Heath & Company, 1879.

Alcott, Louisa May. Flower Fables. Boston: George W. Briggs and Co., 1855.

Bailey, W. Whitman. Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers. Providence, RI: Preston and Rounds, 1895.

Barker, Fred C., and John S. Danforth. Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River and Parmachenee Lake: First Winter in the Wilderness. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882.

Barnum, Phineas Taylor. Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages. New York: Carleton, 1865.

Bolles, Frank. Land of the Lingering Snow: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from January to June. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1895.

Bradford, William. History of Plimoth Plantation. Boston: privately printed, 1856.

Browne, George Elmer. Canoeing Down the Androscoggin. Outing: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Sport, Travel and Recreation 32 (July 1898).

Chase, Owen. Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, of Nantucket. New York: W. B. Gilley, 1821.

Chubbuck, Isaac Y. Up Tripyramid on Snow-Shoes. Appalachia: The Journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, vol. 7. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1895.

Creevey, Caroline Alathea Stickney. Recreations in Botany. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.

Drake, Samuel Adams. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1875.

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, 1920.

Dwight, Timothy. Travels in New England and New York. London: W. Baynes and Son, and Ogle, Duncan & Co., 1823.

Eaton, Walter Prichard. In Berkshire Fields. New York: Harper and Brothers Company, 1920.

Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. Clearwater and Woods Hospitality. Forest and Stream 36, no. 9 (1891).

Edwards, Jonathan. Some Early Writings of Jonathan Edwards A.D. 17141726. Library of American Civilization. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1896.

Emerson, Ellen Russell. Nature and Human Nature. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1902.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.

Flagg, Wilson. Studies in the Field and Forest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1857.

Gibson, William Hamilton. Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891.

Hale, Louise C. We Discover New England. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1917.

Harris, Amanda B. How We Went Birds-Nesting:Field, Wood and Meadow Rambles. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1880.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Originally published in 1850.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Out-door Papers. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891.

Hubbard, Lucius. Woods and Lakes of Maine: A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a Birch-bark Canoe. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.

Jackson, Charles T. Report on the Geological and Agricultural Survey of the State of Rhode-Island. Providence, RI: B. Cranston & Co., 1840.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Strangers and Wayfarers. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1892. Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1889.

Johnson, Clifton. Highways and Byways of New England: Including the States of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, and Maine. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915.

Josselyn, John. New England Rarities, Discoveredin Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country. Boston: William Veazie, 1865.

Keller, Helen. The World I Live In. New York: The Century Company, 1908.

Lowell, Amy. Men, Women, and Ghosts. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.

Lowell, James Russell. My Garden Acquaintance, and A Good Word for Winter. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1871.

Mars, James. Life of James Mars. Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Company, 1864.

Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1864.

Olmsted, Frederick Law. Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park and Other Matters. Boston: City of Boston, Department of Parks, 1886.

OReilly, John Boyle. Athletics and Manly Sport. Boston: Pilot Publishing Company, 1890.

Percival, James Gates. Life and Letters of James Gates Percival. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

Peters, Samuel. A General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877.

Pinchot, Gifford. The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves. Appalachia: The Journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, vol. 11. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.