Wilderness Tales Forty Stories Of The North American Wild Diana Fuss by Diana Fuss instant download after payment.

**A dazzling collection of short stories about North American outdoor life --both classic and contemporary--from James Fenimore Cooper and Jack London to Margaret Atwood and Anthony Doerr and many more.**The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild.From the nineteenth century's Washington Irving ("Rip Van Winkle") to the twenty-first century's Ted Chiang ("The Great Silence")--a panoramic view of wilderness fiction, from Gothic tales of mystery and suspense ("The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass), to tales of danger and survival ("Walking Out" by David Quammen); from modern tales of retreat and solitude ("Happiness" by Ron...