John Burroughs Medal

Given by John Burroughs Association

Other Names: John Burroughs Honor List of Nature Book
87 Works 20,263 Books 496 Reviews 4.2
The John Burroughs Association publicly recognizes well-written and illustrated natural history publications. Each year the Burroughs medal is awarded to the author of a distinguished book of show more natural history, with the presentation made during the Association's annual meeting on the first Monday of April. show less
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Winner 85

WorkYear
Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place by Kelby Ouchley2023
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn2022
Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees by William Bryant Logan2021
Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay by Marilyn Sigman2020
A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice by William E. Glassley2019
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell2018
Martin Marten: A Novel by Brian Doyle2017
Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World by Sharman Apt Russell2016
Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska by Sherry Simpson2015
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie2014
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson2013
Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland2012
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey2011
Sand: The Never-Ending Story by Michael Welland2010
Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay by Franklin Burroughs2009
The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific by Julia Whitty2008
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy2007
The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong by Donald E. Kroodsma2006
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer2005
Liquid Land: A Journey Through the Florida Everglades by Ted Levin2004
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival by Carl Safina2003
Wilderness and Razor Wire by Ken Lamberton2002
Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year by David M. Carroll2001
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Bernd Heinrich2000
Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land by Jan DeBlieu1999
In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects by John Alcock1998
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen1997
Water, Ice, And Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes by Bill Green1996
Into Africa by Craig Packer1995
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica by David G. Campbell1994
Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos by Vincent G Dethier1993
Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin by Kenneth S. Norris1992
The Island Within by Richard Nelson1991
The control of nature by John McPhee1990
On Watching Birds by Lawrence Kilham1989
Bay Country: Reflections on the Chesapeake by Tom Horton1988
Wintergreen: Listening to the Land's Heart by Robert Michael Pyle1987
Gathering the Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan1986
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness by Mark Owens1985
The Klamath Knot by David Rains Wallace1984
A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm by Alexander Skutch1983
Sand Rivers by Peter Matthiessen1982
On the Road With John James Audubon by Mary B. Durant1981
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez1979
Desert: the American Southwest by Ruth Kirk1978
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold1977
Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West by Ann Zwinger1976
Sigurd F. Olson's Wilderness Days by Sigurd F. Olson1974
The forests and wetlands of New York City by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers1973
The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland by Robert Arbib1972
The walking adventures of a naturalist by John K. Terres1971
The Year of the Whale by Victor B. Scheffer1970
The Lovely and the Wild by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence1969
Hill Country Harvest by Hal Borland1968
The Winter Beach by Charlton Ogburn1967
The Gull's Way by Louis Darling1966
Roadless Area by Paul Brooks1965
The Great Beach by John Hay1964
A Naturalist in Alaska by Adolph Murie1963
Iceland summer: Adventures of a bird painter by George Miksch Sutton1962
The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley1961
A Natural History of New York City by John Kieran1960
On the trail of vanishing birds by Robert Porter Allen1958
The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores by Archie F. Carr1957
Song of the Sky: An Exploration of the Ocean of Air by Guy Murchie1956
Those of the Forest by Wallace Byron Grange1955
The Desert Year by Joseph Wood Krutch1954
The Bay (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by Gilbert C. Klingel1953
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson1952
Birds over America by Roger Tory Peterson1950
Flight into sunshine,: Bird experiences in Florida; by Helen Gere Cruickshank1949
Driftwood valley by Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher1948
Snowshoe Country by Florence Page Jaques1946
This Green World by Rutherford Hayes Platt1945
Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden by Edwin Way Teale1943
Birds Of The Grey Wind by ARMSTRONG EDWARD A.1942
Birds against men by Louis Joseph Halle1941
Life Histories of North American Birds by Arthur Cleveland Bent1940
Adventures in Bird Protection: An Autobiography by Thomas Gilbert Pearson1939
Oceanic birds of South America; a study of species of the related coasts and seas by Robert Cushman Murphy1938
Wild Pasture Pine by W. W. [William Weaver] Christman1934
A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh1932
Peace in the Heart by Archibald Rutledge1930
Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America by Frank M. Chapman1929
Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton1927

No Stage 2

WorkCategoryYear
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin BurnsHonor List2008
The Elephant Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series) by Caitlin O'ConnellHonor List

Descriptions

The John Burroughs Association publicly recognizes well-written and illustrated natural history publications. Each year the Burroughs medal is awarded to the author of a distinguished book of natural history, with the presentation made during the Association's annual meeting on the first Monday of April. (English, Member-written)

Since 1926, the Association has awarded the prestigious John Burroughs Medal to the author of a distinguished nature book. The Association added the annual Riverby Award for young readers in 1988 and the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award in 1994. The awards recognize works of excellent writing about the natural world. They have to helped propel the careers of many outstanding authors and have expanded their audiences. Award winners have included Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, John McPhee, Roger Tory Peterson, and Peter Matthiessen, among many others.

Cash prizes are now given to the winner of each award. Nominations are accepted each summer through a specific deadline for each award. To submit a nomination, click on the link below under the award category.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://www.johnburroughsassociation.org/literary-awards/about-the-awards

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