Music of the Wild: With Reproductions of the Performers, Their Instruments and Festival Halls

by Gene Stratton-Porter

This vintage book contains Gene Stratton-Porter's 1910 work, "Music of the Wilds". Split into three parts, this fantastic volume comprises a collection of wonderful and masterfully-composed musings on the subject of nature. This book is sure to appeal to lovers of nature writing, and it is not to be missed by collectors of Stratton-Porter's beautiful work. Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) was an American writer, naturalist, photographer, and one of the first women to own a movie studio. The contents of this book "The Chorus of the Forest", "Songs of the Field", and "The Music of the Marsh". Many antiquarian texts such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

428 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

She was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day.

Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette.

She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shane's", which was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books.