John Burroughs Medal
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The John Burroughs Medal[1] , named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association[2] to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural history. Only twice has the award been given to a work of fiction.
List of recipients of the John Burroughs Medal
- 1926 - William Beebe, Pheasants of the World
- 1927 - Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of Game Animals
- 1928 - John Russell McCarthy, Nature Poems
- 1929 - Frank M. Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America (published 1906)
- 1930 - Archibald Rutledge, Peace in the Heart
- 1931 - no award
- 1932 - Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, A Canyon Voyage: A Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition, .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
ISBN 0-8165-0880-1 - 1933 - Oliver P. Medsker, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (set)
- 1934 - W.W. Christman, Wild Pasture Pine
- 1935 - no award
- 1936 - Charles Crawford Gorst, Recordings of Bird Calls
- 1937 - no award
- 1938 - Robert Cushman Murphy, Oceanic Birds of South America
- 1939 - T. Gilbert Pearson, Adventures in Bird Protection
- 1940 - Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds (18 title series, United States Government Printing Office)
- 1941 - Louis J. Halle, Jr., Birds Against Men
- 1942 - Edward A. Armstrong, Birds of the Grey Wind
- 1943 - Edwin Way Teale, Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden
- 1944 - no award
- 1945 - Rutherford Platt, This Green World
ISBN 0-396-09188-1 - 1946 - Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques (illustrator), Snowshoe Country,
ISBN 0-87351-236-7 - 1947 - no award
- 1948 - Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher, Driftwood Valley,
ISBN 0-87071-524-0 - 1949 - Helen G. Cruickshank, Flight Into Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida
- 1950 - Roger Tory Peterson, Birds Over America,
ISBN 0-396-08269-6 - 1951 - no award
- 1952 - Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us,
ISBN 0-451-61873-4 - 1953 - Gilbert Klingel, The Bay,
ISBN 0-8018-2536-9 - 1954 - Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year,
ISBN 0-8165-0923-9 - 1955 - Wallace Byron Grange and Olaus J. Murie (illustrator), Those of the Forest,
ISBN 1-55971-083-7 - 1956 - Guy Murchie, Song of the Sky
- 1957 - Archie Fairly Carr, The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores,
ISBN 0-8130-0639-2 - 1958 - Robert Porter Allen, On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds
- 1959 - no award
- 1960 - John Kieran, A Natural History of New York City,
ISBN 0-8232-1086-3 - 1961 - Loren Eiseley, The Firmament of Time,
ISBN 0-8032-6739-8 - 1962 - George Miksch Sutton, Iceland Summer: Adventures of a Bird Painter,
ISBN 0-8061-0491-0 - 1963 - Adolph Murie, A Naturalist in Alaska,
ISBN 0-8165-1168-3 - 1964 - John Hay, The Great Beach: A Naturalist Explores the Frontier Between Land and Sea on the Outer Reaches of Cape Cod,
ISBN 0-345-02255-6 - 1965 - Paul Brooks, Roadless Area,
ISBN 0-345-25276-4 - 1966 - Louis Darling, The Gull's Way,
ISBN 0-688-21366-9 - 1967 - Charlton Ogburn, Jr., The Winter Beach,
ISBN 0-688-09418-X - 1968 - Hal Borland, Hill Country Harvest
- 1969 - Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, The Lovely and the Wild,
ISBN 0-920474-43-8 - 1970 - Victor B. Scheffer, The Year of the Whale
- 1971 - John K. Terres, From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog,
ISBN 0-8078-4426-8 - 1972 - Robert S. Arbib, The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland,
ISBN 0-393-08639-9 - 1973 - Elizabeth Barlow, The Forests and Wetlands of New York City
- 1974 - Sigurd F. Olson, Wilderness Days,
ISBN 0-394-47155-5 - 1975 - no award
- 1976 - Ann Haymond Zwinger, Run, River, Run,
ISBN 0-06-014824-1 - 1977 - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac,
ISBN 0-915024-15-2 - 1978 - Ruth Kirk, The American Southwest Desert,
ISBN 0-395-17209-8 - 1979 - Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men,
ISBN 0-7432-4936-4 - 1980 - no award
- 1981 - Mary Durant and Michael Harwood, On the Road with John James Audubon,
ISBN 0-396-07740-4 - 1982 - Peter Matthiessen, Sand Rivers,
ISBN 0-906053-22-6 - 1983 - Alexander F. Skutch, A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm,
ISBN 0-520-03802-9 - 1984 - David Rains Wallace, The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution,
ISBN 0-520-23659-9 - 1985 - Mark Owens and Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari,
ISBN 0-395-64780-0 - 1986 - Gary Paul Nabhan, Gathering the Desert,
ISBN 0-8165-0935-2 - 1987 - Robert Michael Pyle, Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land,
ISBN 0-684-18321-8 - 1988 - Tom Horton and Charles R. Hazard (illustrator), Bay Country,
ISBN 0-8018-3525-9 - 1989 - Lawrence Kilham, On Watching Birds,
ISBN 0-930031-14-8 - 1990 - John McPhee, The Control of Nature,
ISBN 0-374-12890-1 - 1991 - Richard Nelson, The Island Within,
ISBN 0-86547-404-4 - 1992 - Kenneth S. Norris, Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin,
ISBN 0-393-02945-X - 1993 - Vincent Dethier, Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos,
ISBN 0-674-17577-8 - 1994 - David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica,
ISBN 0-436-20049-X - 1995 - Craig Packer, Into Africa,
ISBN 0-226-64429-4 - 1996 - Bill Green, Water, Ice and Stone:Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes,
ISBN 0-517-58759-9 - 1997 - David Quammen, The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction,
ISBN 0-684-80083-7 - 1998 - John Alcock, In a Desert Garden:Love and Death Among the Insects,
ISBN 0-8165-1970-6 - 1999 - Jan DeBlieu, Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land,
ISBN 0-395-78033-0 - 2000 - Bernd Heinrich, Mind Of the Raven,
ISBN 0-06-017447-1 - 2001 - David M. Carroll, Swampwalker's Journal,
ISBN 0-395-64725-8 - 2002 - Ken Lamberton, Wilderness and Razor Wire,
ISBN 1-56279-116-8 - 2003 - Carl Safina, Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival,
ISBN 0-8050-6228-9 - 2004 - Ted Levin, Liquid Land: A Journey Through The Florida Everglades,
ISBN 0-8203-2512-0 - 2005 - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses,
ISBN 0-87071-499-6 - 2006 - Donald Kroodsma, The Singing Life of Birds,
ISBN 0-618-40568-2 - 2007 - Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild,
ISBN 0-375-42216-1 - 2008 - Julia Whitty, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific,
ISBN 0-618-19716-8 - 2009 - Franklin Burroughs, Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay,
ISBN 0-88448-282-0 - 2010 - Michael Welland, Sand: The Never-Ending Story,
ISBN 0-520-26597-1 - 2011 - Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating,
ISBN 978-1565126060 - 2012 - Edward (Ted) Hoagland, Sex and the River Styx,
ISBN 978-1603583374 - 2013 - Thor Hanson, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle,
ISBN 978-0465028788 - 2014 - Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines,
ISBN 978-0956308665 - 2015 - Sherry Simpson, Dominion of Bears,
ISBN 978-0700619351 - 2016 - Sharman Apt Russell, Diary of a Citizen Scientist,
ISBN 978-0870717529 [3][4] - 2017 - Brian Doyle, Martin Marten,
ISBN 978-1250045201 [5] - 2018 - David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees,
ISBN 978-0525427520 [6]
References
^ "About the Awards". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
^ "About the John Burroughs Association". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
^ http://www.johnburroughsassociation.org/literary-awards978-0870717529
^ http://www.johnburroughsassociation.org/literary-awards978-0870717529
^ http://pamplinmedia.com/lor/48-news/344440-224491-lake-oswego-author-brian-doyle-honored-for-nature-writing
^ "David Haskell Wins 2018 John Burroughs Medal". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
External links
"John Burroughs Medal Award List".- Official website