自然書寫

自然書寫（），是关于自然环境的非虛構寫作、小说、散文或诗歌。自然書寫的範疇，从强调自然历史事实的野外指南，到具備哲学性的作品，諸如：自然历史散文、诗歌、有關孤独或逃避的散文、旅行記事和冒险写作。

當代的自然書寫，可以追溯到18世纪下半叶和19世纪流行的自然历史著作。早期的代表人物 ，是英國牧師、鸟类学家兼早期博物學家，代表作品是《塞耳彭自然史》（, 1789）。

是美国早期博物学家的代表人物，第一部著作于1791年出版。

參見

• 自然
• 自然史
• 生态批评
• 生态乌托邦

参考
註腳
延伸阅读

• Finch, Robert, and John Elder, eds. The Norton Book of Nature Writing. New York: Norton, 1990; Nature writing: the tradition in English. edited by Robert Finch and John Elder. New York: W.W. Norton, c2002. This book is an all encompassing guide and encyclopedia of 200 years of nature writing.
• Keith, W. J., The Rural Tradition: William Cobbett, Gilbert White, and Other Non-Fiction Writers of the English Countryside. Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester, 1975. This book has a useful bibliography. In addition, this book goes over specific parts of nature writing, including landscape, pastoral and country life literature.
• Lyon, Thomas J., ed. This Incomparable Land: A Book of American Nature Writing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. This book is an introduction guide to the genre. It goes over the vastness of the genre and American writing within the genre.
• This textbook styled book mainly consists of the history behind nature writing.
• Mabey, Richard, The Oxford Book of Nature Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. This piece also goes over the magnitude of this genre and presents essays from varying nature authors.
• Stewart, Frank, A Natural History of Nature Writing. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994. This books concentrates on the origins of American nature writing.
• Trimble, Stephen, "Words From the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing". Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1995 (revised edition). . This book is a representative collection of essays which goes over the contemporary part of nature writing.

外部連結

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725042147/http://william.bartramtrail.org/pages/Bartram_Trail/frame12.html William Bartram's early Southern travels] (archived 25 July 2011)
• [http://digital.library.pitt.edu/a/audubon/plates.html Audubon's Birds of America at the U. of Pittsburgh]

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• [https://landlinesproject.wordpress.com/ Land Lines: British Nature Writing, 1789–2014] (AHRC funded research project exploring British nature writing from the late eighteenth century to the present).