Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Foreword by John Elder vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Editorial Principles xxxiii
A Dissolving View 3
Introduction to John Leonard Knapp's Country Rambles in England; or, Journal of a Naturalist 17
Introduction to The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life: Or, Selections from Fields Old and New 24
Preface to the 1868 edition of RuralHours 45
Later Hours 47
Village Improvement Societies 64
Otsego Leaves I: Birds Then and Now 78
Otsego Leaves II: The Bird Mediaeval 87
Otsego Leaves III: The Bird Primeval 97
A Lament for the Birds
Emendations 115
Textual Notes 19
Explanatory Notes 12I
Index I29.-x
Essays on nature and landscape by Susan Fenimore Cooper. ISBN 0820324221. Published by University of Georgia Press in 2002. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.