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| | Amazon.com: By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | It includes the usual suspects, among them Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Annie Dillard--who are heavily represented in similar anthologies--but it also includes a few pleasant surprises, such as an essay by Maurice Maeterlinck on ants, Vladimir Nabokov's graceful reflections on lepidoptery, and Jean-Henri Fabre on wasps. |
 | | Late 19th- and early 20th-century English writings on nature are known for their high coloration and elegiac tone, where nothing is left unsaid and the din of words can obscure the subject. |
 | | The anthologydivided into sections on landscape, birds, beasts, and on insects and fishbuzzes with the work of John Clare and Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Jeffries, Henry Seebohm, and Charles Darwin. |
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