A Paul Brooks Bibliography

Books

  • The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972)
  • The Old Manse and the People Who Lived There (S.l.: Trustees of Reservations, 1983)
  • The People of Concord: One Year in the Flowering of New England (Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1990)
  • The Pursuit of Wilderness (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971)
  • Roadless Area (New York: Knopf, 1964)
  • Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980; reprinted, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983)
  • A summary report : Lincoln Land Use Conference, Lincoln, Massachusetts, November 19, 1977 (Lincoln, MA: Lincoln Land Use Conference, 1977)
  • Trial by Fire: Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the War of Independence (Lincoln, MA: Lincoln 1975 Bicentennial Commission, 1975)
  • The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the Land in a New England Town (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976)
  • Worth Remembering (S.l.: s.n., 1999)

Articles

  • “Acquiring and Protecting Land” in Garden Journal (November/December 1968, pp. 71-80; reprinted in Challenge for Survival: Land, Air, and Water For Man in Megalopolis edited by Pierre Dansereau (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970))
  • “Alaska: Last Frontier” in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1962, 73-78)
  • “Baja California: Emergency and Opportunity” in Audubon (March 1972, pp. 4-23)
  • “Beachcombing in the Virgin Islands” in Harper’s Magazine (December 1960, pp. 52-57)
  • “Between the Tides” in Massachusetts Audubon (January/February 1960, pp. 105-110)
  • “Birds and Men” in Audubon (July 1980, pp. 43-45)
  • “Birds and Women” in Audubon (September 1980, pp. 88-97)
  • “Canyonlands: A New National Park” in The Atlantic Monthly (March 1963, pp. 52-57)
  • “Champlain: Battleground Still” in Audubon (January 1977, pp. 66-77)
  • “Coming to Lincoln in the ‘Thirties’” in The Lincoln Review (November/December 1997, pp. 5-9)
  • “Concord: First Town in the Wilderness” in The Living Wilderness (April/June 1976, pp. 4-9)
  • “Congressman Aspinall vs. the People of the United States” in Harper’s Magazine (March 1963, pp. 60-63)
  • “Conservation and the Conventional Wisdom” / “Wilderness and Western Culture” in Sierra Club Bulletin (December 1965,  pp. 6-9)
  • “A Copper Company vs. the North Cascades” in Harper’s Magazine (September 1967, pp. 48-50)
  • “Courage of Rachel Carson” in Audubon (January 1987, pp. 12, 14-15)
  • “England by Canoe” in The Atlantic (January 1958, pp. 93-96)
  • “A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson” in Country Journal (December 1985, pp. 34-41)
  • “The Fight for America’s Alps” in The Atlantic (February 1967, pp. 87-90, 97-99)
  • “The First Owners” in Man & Nature: Land Use 1975 (Lincoln, MA: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1975, pp. 22-27)
  • “The Golden Plains of Tanganyika” in Horizon (Winter 1965, pp. 80-89)
  • “The Great Smokies” in The Atlantic (May 1959, pp. 63-66)
  • “Isle Royale” in The Atlantic (September 1960, pp. 74-78)
  • “Just a Country Boy Who Found His Niche” in Audubon (May 1984, pp. 48-59)
  • “Living in the Clouds” in The Atlantic (June 1956, pp. 54-57)
  • “Man’s Way with the Wilderness” in Horizon (March 1960, pp. 12-16)
  • “Mexico’s California” in The Atlantic (September 1964, pp. 69-73)
  • “Oklawaha: The Sweetest Water-Lane in the World” in Audubon (July 1970, pp. 34-45)
  • “Painter as Naturalist” in Sierra Club Bulletin (March/April 1983, pp. 88-91)
  • “The Plot to Drown Alaska” in The Atlantic (May 1965, pp. 53-59; reprinted in Reader’s Digest, August 1965, pp. 79-83)
  • “’The Plot to Strangle Alaska’ by Ernest Guerning, Paul Brooks Replies” in The Atlantic (July 1965, pp. 56-59)
  • “The Pressure of Numbers” in The Atlantic (February 1961, pp. 54-56)
  • “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring” in The Lincoln Review (May/June 1993, pp. 7,10)
  • “Roadless Area” in The Atlantic (June 1954, pp. 47-50)
  • “A Roadless Area Revisited” in Audubon (March 1975, pp. 28-37)
  • “Room for Living: the Lincoln Experience” in Audubon (September 1967, pp. 102-107)
  • “The Seed of a Conscience” in  Audubon (November/December 1967, pp. 36-37)
  • “The Spirit of ‘Eight-Fifteen’” in The Atlantic Monthly (August 1943, pp. 107, 109)
  • “St. Mark’s School Founded in Southboro, 1865” in Town & Country (1 October 1933, pp 46-49, 72)
  • “Superjetport or Everglades Park?” in Audubon (July 1969, pp. 4-11)
  • “Thoreau’s Joyful Search for Truth” in Country Journal (September 1975, pp. 80-87)
  • “Three-Mile Portage” in The Atlantic (March 1962, pp. 82-85)
  • “Tonic of Wilderness” in Country Journal (September 1977, pp. 66-71)
  • “Town Meeting Tonight” in Country Journal (March 1977, pp. 40-43)
  • “Two in a Canoe” in The Atlantic (July1942, pp. 95-97)
  • “The Two Johns: Burroughs and Muir” in Sierra Club Bulletin (September/October 1980, pp. 51-58)
  • “The Uses of a Canoe” in Country Journal (June 1974, pp. 40-45)
  • “Warning: The Chain Saw Cometh” in The Atlantic (December 1971, pp. 95-99)
  • “What is a Book Contract?” in The Atlantic (June 1949, pp. 78-79)
  • “Wild Africa’s Future?”  in Massachusetts Audubon (Autumn 1964, pp. 240-244)
  • “The Wilderness Ideal” in The Living Wilderness (September 1980, pp. 4-12)
  • “Wild Rivers” in Joint Report of the Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior (May 1965, p. 33)
  • “The Words We Work With” in Sierra Club Bulletin (April 1968, pp. 17-19)
  • “Young Emerson’s Teacher: Born a Century Too Soon” in The Lincoln Review (March/April 1965, pp. 29, 31)

 Works Edited

  • Mondays at nine; or, Pedagogues on parade, a collection of the literary débris of Sarah Lampoon, last of the white witches and intimate confidante of the Harvard faculty with T. Graydon Upton (Cambridge: The Harvard Lampoon, 1931)

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