Allan W. Eckert Summary

Combining thorough research and factual details with literary techniques such as dialogue and narration, Allan W. Eckert brings to life the world of nature in his documentary fiction and recreates the... Read more

Critical Essay by Marian Sorenson The end of the great auk as a member of the world's wildlife is told [in "The Great Auk"] as a novel. In a powerful and poetic flow [Mr. Eckert]... Read more

Critical Essay by Jane Manthorne In one of the strangest chapters of American history a boy who had long played at being an Indian became one. Marmaduke Van Swearingen, captured with his younger brot... Read more

Critical Essay by Irwin Polishook Eckert's description [in "Wilderness Empire"] of the often bloody encounters between the competing forces of empire, with the Indians taking dif... Read more

Critical Essay by Martin Levin Mr. Eckert's folk fable of a small boy who can talk to furred and feathered friends ["Incident at Hawk's Hill"] is part of an apocrypha that... Read more

Critical Essay by Mark Neyman In 1778 Daniel Boone was charged with several counts of treason, involving his alleged collusion with the Shawnee Indians and the British. Eckert … has written a ... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter Gardner [The Owls of North America, a] magnificent reference book, surely the most comprehensive and handsome to date, covers all the owls known to inhabit the continent north... Read more

Critical Essay by Brad Knickerbocker First, you take a bit from each of the disaster movies made in recent years, add a few current events (oil embargo, space exploration, the third world), and stir ... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Murphy There has probably never been in all the world a species of bird more numerous than the passenger pigion, which moved about over the eastern half of the North American... Read more

Critical Essay by Ralph C. Baxter To those who critically read either of Allan W. Eckert's other naturalist books, "The Great Auk" or "The Silent Sky," the technica... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Havighurst Using the voluminous Draper manuscripts and other first-hand accounts of the winning of the West, Eckert has followed the frontiersmen from the first wondering exp... Read more