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Rural hours

The daughter of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper uses narratives and descriptions of her walks and excursions in this piece of American nature writing, to reveal her ideal society as a rural one, carefully poised between the receding wilderness and looming industrialization.
Print Book, English, ©1998
Univ. of Georgia Press, Athens, ©1998
XXIV, 352 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm
9780820319742, 9780820320007, 0820319740, 0820320005
246373261
Originally published: New York :G. P. Putnam : London : Putnam's American agency, 1850. With new introd