John-Burroughs-Medaille

Die John-Burroughs-Medaille, im Englischen als John Burroughs Medal oder Burrough Medal bezeichnet, ist eine Auszeichnung, die an Autoren naturwissenschaftlicher Bücher verliehen wird. Sie wird jedes Jahr durch die John Burroughs Association verliehen. Zu den bis heute bekanntesten Preisträgern der Medaille gehören Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold und Ernest Thompson Seton.

Liste der Empfänger dieser Auszeichnung

• 1926 - William Beebe, Pheasants of the World.
• 1927 - Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of Game Animals.
• 1928 - John Russell McCarthy, Nature Poems.
• 1929 - Frank M. Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America. (1906 veröffentlicht)
• 1930 - Archibald Rutledge, Peace in the Heart.
• 1931 - kein Preisträger
• 1932 - Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, A Canyon Voyage: A Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition. ISBN 0-8165-0880-1
• 1933 - Oliver P. Medsker, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (set)
• 1934 - W.W. Christman, Wild Pasture Pine.
• 1935 - kein Preisträger
• 1936 - Charles Crawford Gorst, Recordings of Bird Calls.
• 1937 - kein Preisträger
• 1938 - Robert Cushman Murphy, Oceanic Birds of South America.
• 1939 - Gilbert T. Pearson, Adventures in Bird Protection.
• 1940 - Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds. (18 title series, United States Government Printing Office)
• 1941 - Louis J. Halle, Jr., Birds Against Men.
• 1942 - Edward A. Armstrong, Birds of the Grey Wind.
• 1943 - Edwin Way Teale, Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden.
• 1944 - kein Preisträger
• 1945 - Rutherford Platt, This Green World. ISBN 0-396-09188-1
• 1946 - Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques (illustrator), Snowshoe Country. ISBN 0-87351-236-7
• 1947 - kein Preisträger
• 1948 - Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher, Driftwood Valley. ISBN 0-87071-524-0
• 1949 - Helen G. Cruickshank, Flight Into Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida.
• 1950 - Roger Tory Peterson, Birds Over America. ISBN 0-396-08269-6
• 1951 - kein Preisträger
• 1952 - Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us. ISBN 0-451-61873-4
• 1953 - Gilbert Klingel, The Bay. ISBN 0-8018-2536-9
• 1954 - Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year. ISBN 0-8165-0923-9
• 1955 - Wallace Byron Grange and Olaus J. Murie (illustrator), Those of the Forest. ISBN 1-55971-083-7
• 1956 - Guy Murchie, Song of the Sky.
• 1957 - Archie Fairly Carr, The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores. ISBN 0-8130-0639-2
• 1958 - Robert Porter Allen, On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds.
• 1959 - kein Preisträger
• 1960 - John Kieran, A Natural History of New York City. ISBN 0-8232-1086-3
• 1961 - Loren Eiseley, The Firmament of Time. ISBN 0-8032-6739-8
• 1962 - George Miksch Sutton, Iceland Summer: Adventures of a Bird Painter. ISBN 0-8061-0491-0
• 1963 - Adolph Murie, A Naturalist in Alaska. ISBN 0-8165-1168-3
• 1964 - John Hay, The Great Beach: A Naturalist Explores the Frontier Between Land and Sea on the Outer Reaches of Cape Cod. ISBN 0-345-02255-6
• 1965 - Paul Brooks, Roadless Area. ISBN 0-345-25276-4
• 1966 - Louis Darling, The Gull's Way. ISBN 0-688-21366-9
• 1967 - Charlton Ogburn, Jr., The Winter Beach. ISBN 0-688-09418-X
• 1968 - Hal Borland, Hill Country Harvest.
• 1969 - Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, The Lovely and the Wild. ISBN 0-920474-43-8
• 1970 - Victor B. Scheffer, The Year of the Whale.
• 1971 - John K. Terres, From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog. ISBN 0-8078-4426-8
• 1972 - Robert S. Arbib, The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland. ISBN 0-393-08639-9
• 1973 - Elizabeth Barlow, The Forests and Wetlands of New York City.
• 1974 - Sigurd F. Olson, Wilderness Days. ISBN 0-394-47155-5
• 1975 - kein Preisträger
• 1976 - Ann Haymond Zwinger, Run, River, Run. ISBN 0-06-014824-1
• 1977 - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac. ISBN 0-915024-15-2
• 1978 - Ruth Kirk, The American Southwest Desert. ISBN 0-395-17209-8
• 1979 - Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men. ISBN 0-7432-4936-4
• 1980 - kein Preisträger
• 1981 - Mary Durant and Michael Harwood, On the Road with John James Audubon. ISBN 0-396-07740-4
• 1982 - Peter Matthiessen, Sand Rivers. ISBN 0-906053-22-6
• 1983 - Alexander F. Skutch, A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm. ISBN 0-520-03802-9
• 1984 - David Rains Wallace, The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution. ISBN 0-520-23659-9
• 1985 - Mark Owens and Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari. ISBN 0-395-64780-0
• 1986 - Gary Paul Nabhan, Gathering the Desert. ISBN 0-8165-0935-2
• 1987 - Robert Michael Pyle, Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land. ISBN 0-684-18321-8
• 1988 - Tom Horton and Charles R. Hazard (illustrator), Bay Country. ISBN 0-8018-3525-9
• 1989 - Lawrence Kilham, On Watching Birds. ISBN 0-930031-14-8
• 1990 - John McPhee, The Control of Nature. ISBN 0-374-12890-1
• 1991 - Richard Nelson, The Island Within. ISBN 0-86547-404-4
• 1992 - Kenneth S. Norris, Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin. ISBN 0-393-02945-X
• 1993 - Vincent Dethier, Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos. ISBN 0-674-17577-8
• 1994 - David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica. ISBN 0-436-20049-X
• 1995 - Craig Packer, Into Africa. ISBN 0-226-64429-4
• 1996 - Bill Green, Water, Ice and Stone:Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes. ISBN 0-517-58759-9
• 1997 - David Quammen, The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction. ISBN 0-684-80083-7
• 1998 - John Alcock, In a Desert Garden:Love and Death Among the Insects. ISBN 0-8165-1970-6
• 1999 - Jan DeBlieu, Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land. ISBN 0-395-78033-0
• 2000 - Bernd Heinrich, Mind Of the Raven. ISBN 0-06-017447-1
• 2001 - David M. Carroll, Swampwalker's Journal. ISBN 0-395-64725-8
• 2002 - Ken Lamberton, Wilderness and Razor Wire. ISBN 1-56279-116-8
• 2003 - Carl Safina, Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival. ISBN 0-8050-6228-9
• 2004 - Ted Levin, Liquid Land: A Journey Through The Florida Everglades. ISBN 0-8203-2512-0
• 2005 - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. ISBN 0-87071-499-6
• 2006 - Donald Kroodsma, The Singing Life of Birds. ISBN 0-618-40568-2
• 2007 - Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone. ISBN 0-375-42216-1
• 2008 - Julia Whitty, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific. ISBN 978-0-618-19716-3

Weblinks

• John Burroughs Association Official Home Page