Natural History

Wake-Robin

by John Burroughs

John Burroughs’s first book of nature essays, mostly about birds, written while he was a clerk at the Treasury in Washington. His friend Walt Whitman suggested the title. Burroughs became the best-loved nature writer in America, with a cabin in the woods above the Hudson and visitors who included Theodore Roosevelt.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 4 hr 5 min

Where to find it

The Naturalist’s Cabinet

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #4203. In the public domain in the United States.