John Burroughs Medal- Natural History Writing

This is one of the more minor awards. I don't think there is money awarded- just recognition. I like seeing the book they pick each year. This year it went to The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey.

Previous Winners- http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/medal_award_list.html

Also in CK- http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/John+Burroughs+Medal

A book of essays by a 'grumpy old man' (author's words) is this year's winner. Sex and the River Styx, Edward Hoagland

This is an award for natural history writing. The first award was presented in 1926.

<1 I read The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating last year while I was recovering from back surgery. It was a well deserved award. I recommend it to every one who is ailing or just in need of a mental slow down.

Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland, 2012 Winner
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson, 2013 Winner
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie, winner 2014
Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska by Sherry Simpson, winner 2015
Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World by Sharman Apt Russell, winner 2016
Martin Marten by Brian Doyle, winner 2017
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell, winner 2018
A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice by William E. Glassley, winner 2019
Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay by Marilyn Sigman, winner 2020
Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees by William Bryant Logan , winner 2021