Wear on the edges and the first page has a hole in it. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra media that have been on our shelfs for too long. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: The three papers given in this volume will appeal especially to the large number of boys and girls who enjoy stories of boating, camping, and tramping experiences. The first, "A Summer Boating Trip," is from Pepacton and Other Sketches; the second, "Camping with the President," is from the "Atlantic Monthly" for May, 1906; and the third, "A Tramp in the Catskills," is a selection, complete in itself, from "Birch Browsings" in Wake-Robin. There is great adaptability of the writings of this nature philosopher to school use. The desirability of bringing children into that intimate and sympathetic relationship with nature which pervades all of Mr. Burrough's writings is apparent to all teachers who recognize the need and the difficulty of inculcating a love of nature in their pupils. John Burroughs was an American essayist and naturalist who lived and wrote after the manner of Thoreau, studying and celebrating nature. He was born April 3, 1837, near the town of Roxbury in the Catskill Mountains. Growing up on his parents' farm, he absorbed much of the nature and country life that he would later write about in his many volumes. He taught briefly, married, and during the Civil War settled in Washington, D.C. where he obtained a job as a clerk in the Treasury Department. It was during his nine years in Washington that he published his first book, Wake-Robin. In 1873 he returned to New York State and established his home "Riverby" on the west bank of the Hudson River at West Park. He began fruit farming and continued to write, publishing a new book about every two years.