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David Gessner

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David Gessner is the author of eight books, including Sick of Nature, The Prophet of Dry Hill, and Return of the Osprey, which was chosen by the Boston Globe as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year and the Book-of-the-Month club as one of its top books of the year. The Globe called it a "classic of American Nature Writing." In 2006 he won a Pushcart Prize; in 2007 he won the John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay; and in 2008 his essay, "The Dreamer Does Not exist," was chosen for The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His work has appeared in many magazines and journals including The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Outside, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, and Orion. He has taught environmental writing at Harvard, and is currently an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he founded the national literary journal, Ecotone.

David Gessner

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Website: Go to Website

David Gessner is the author of eight books, including Sick of Nature, The Prophet of Dry Hill, and Return of the Osprey, which was chosen by the Boston Globe as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year and the Book-of-the-Month club as one of its top books of the year. The Globe called it a "classic of American Nature Writing." In 2006 he won a Pushcart Prize; in 2007 he won the John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay; and in 2008 his essay, "The Dreamer Does Not exist," was chosen for The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His work has appeared in many magazines and journals including The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Outside, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, and Orion. He has taught environmental writing at Harvard, and is currently an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he founded the national literary journal, Ecotone.

Books from David Gessner

All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

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Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness

3.9/5 ( ratings)

My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth

Return of the Osprey: A Season of Birds, Flight, and Wonder

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond

Sick of Nature

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons From a Life in Nature

A Wild, Rank Place: A Season of Change

Animals & People

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Reading Shaver's Creek: Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Soaring with Fidel

4.3/5 ( ratings)

This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (This I Believe, #2)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Ecotone: The Body Issue (No. 26, Fall/Winter 2018)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Under the Devil's Thumb

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis

4.3/5 ( ratings)