BURROUGHS, JOHN


Meaning of BURROUGHS, JOHN in English

born April 3, 1837, near Roxbury, N.Y., U.S.

died March 29, 1921, en route from California to New York

U.S. essayist and naturalist.

In his early years he worked as a teacher, farmer, and U.S. Treasury Department clerk. In 1873 he moved to a farm in the Hudson River valley. Traveling extensively, he hiked and camped with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt , among other friends, and accompanied an expedition to Alaska. His many books helped establish the genre of the nature essay; they include Wake-Robin (1871), Birds and Poets (1877), Locusts and Wild Honey (1879), Ways of Nature (1905), and Field and Study (1919).

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