Music of the Wild

by Gene Stratton-Porter

This is Gene Stratton Porter’s 1910 book, "Music Of The Wild". It is a delightful and thought-provoking celebration of nature written with such grace as to appeal to poetry-lovers and fans of nature writing in equal measures. Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) was an American author, naturalist, photographer, and one of the first women to start a movie production company. She published a number of best-selling novels and maintained popular columns in national magazines, including McCalls. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing "Music Of The Wild" now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

426 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.