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John Burroughs Award
The John Burroughs Association awards the medals for writing in natural History. The medal has been awarded since 1926. It is co-sponsored by the John Burroughs Association and the New York Museum of Natural history. Winners
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The John Burroughs Association publicly recognizes well written and illustrated natural history publications. Each year a medal is awarded to the author of a distinguished book of natural history, a list of exceptional natural history books for young readers is selected, and an outstanding nature essay is identified. Presentations of these literary awards are made during the annual meeting of the Association on the first Monday of April.
2000 Bernd Heindrich for Mind Of the Raven Investigations and Adventures with Wolf Birds | Hardcover | Paperback
1999 Jan DeBlieu for Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1998 John Alcock for In a Desert Garden | Hardcover | Paperback
1997 David Quammen for The Song of the Dodo | Paperback
1996 Bill Green for
Water, Ice and Stone | Out of Print
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1995 Craig Packer for Into Africa | Hardcover | Paperback
1994 David Campbell for
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica | Out of Print
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1993 Vincent Dethier for Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos | Hardcover
1992 Kenneth Norris for
Dolphin Days | Out of Print
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1991 Richard Nelson for
The Island Within | Out of Print
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1990 John McPhee for The Control of Nature | Hardcover | Paperback
1989 Lawrence Kilham for On Watching Birds | Paperback
1988 Tom Horton for Bay Country | Hardcover | Paperback
1987 Robert Michael Pyle for
Wintergreen | Out of Print
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1986 Gary Paul Nabhan for Gathering the Desert | Paperback
1985 Mark and Delia Owens for Cry of the Kalahari | Paperback
1984 David Rains Wallace for
The Klamath Knot | Out of Print
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1983 Alexander Skutch for
A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm | Out of Print
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1982 Peter Matthiessen for
Sand Rivers | Out of Print
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1981 Mary Durant and Michael
Harwood for On the Road with John James Audubon
| Out of Print
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1980 No award given
1979 Barry Holstun Lopez for Of Wolves and Men | Hardcover | Paperback
1978 Ruth Kirk for
Desert: The American Southwest | Out of Print
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1977 Aldo Leopold for A
Sand County Almanac |
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Audiobook
1976 Ann Haymond Zwinger for Run, River, Run : A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the American West | Paperback
1975 No award given
1974 Sigurd F. Olson for
Wilderness Days | Out of Print
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1973 Elizabeth Barlow for
The Forests and Wetlands of New York City | Out of
Print
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1972 Robert S. Arbib for
The Lord's Woods | Out of Print
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1971 John K. Terres for From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog The Walking Adventures of A Naturalist | Paperback
1970 Victor B. Scheffer for
The Year of the Whale | Out of Print
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1969 Lawrence, Louise de Kiriline
for The Lovely and the Wild | Out of Print
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1968 Hal Borland for
Hill Country Harvest | Out of Print
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1967 Charlton Ogburn, Jr. for
The Winter Beach | Out of Print
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1966 Louis Darling for
The Gull's Way | Out of Print
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1965 Paul Brooks for
Roadless Area | Out of Print
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1964 John Hay for The
Great Beach | Out of Print
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1963 Adolph Murie for A
Naturalist in Alaska | Out of Print
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1962 George Miksch Sutton for
Iceland Summer | Out of Print
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1961 Loren C. Eiseley for The Firmament of Time | Paperback
1960 John Kieran for A
Natural History of New York City | Out of Print
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1959 No award given
1958 Robert Porter Allen for
On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds | Out of Print
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1957 Archie Fairly Carr for The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores | Paperback
1956 Guy Murchie for
Song of the Sky | Out of Print
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1955 Wallace B. Grange for
Those of the Forest | Out of Print
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1954 Joseph Wood Krutch for
The Desert Year | Out of Print
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1953 Gilbert Klingel for
The Bay | Out of Print
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1952 Rachel L. Carson for The Sea Around Us | Hardcover | Paperback
1951 No award given
1950 Roger Tory Peterson for
Birds Over America | Out of Print
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1949 Helen Cruickshank for
Flight into Sunshine | Out of Print
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1948 Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher for Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness | Paperback
1947 No award given
1946 Florence and Francis Jaques for Snowshoe Country | Hardcover
1945 Rutherford Platt for
This Green World | Out of Print
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1944 No award given
1943 Edwin Way Teale for
Near Horizons | Out of Print
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1942 Edward A. Armstrong for
Birds of the Grey Wind | Out of Print
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1941 Louis J. Halle, Jr. for
Birds against Men | Out of Print
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1940 Arthur Cleveland Bent
for Life Histories of North American Birds: Their Breeding Habits and Eggs
| Out of Print
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1939 Thomas Gilbert Pearson
for Adventures in Bird Protection | Out of Print
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1938 Robert Cushman Murphy
for Oceanic Birds of South America | Out of Print
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1937 No award given
1936 Charles Crawford Gorst
for Recordings of Bird Calls | Out of Print
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1935 No award given
1934 W. W. Christman for
Wild Pasture Pine | Out of Print
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1933 Oliver P. Medsger for
Nature Rambles | Out of Print
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1932 Frederick S. A. Dellenbaugh
for Canyon Voyage | Out of Print
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1931 No award given
1930 Archibald Rutledge for
Peace in the Heart | Out of Print
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1929 Frank M Chapman for
Handbook of North American Birds | Out of Print
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1928 John Russell McCarthy
for Nature Poems | Out of Print
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1927 Ernest Thompson Seton
for Lives of Game Animals | Out of Print
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1926 William Beebe for
Pheasants of the World | Out of Print
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