American animal writer and artist. Born in Scotland, he spent several years from age six in the Canadian countryside, where he became familiar with nature. He later studied natural history and painting in Toronto, London, and Paris, and moved to the United States in 1893. From a young age, he wrote animal stories based on his observations of wild animals, and in 1898, he published "Wild Animals I Have Known," a collection of eight stories, which made him famous and made the book an enduring bestseller. He continued to publish masterpieces of animal literature, known as "Wild Animals I Have Known," and in 1928 he received the John Burroughs Medal. His works are accompanied by many illustrations that he drew himself. He also contributed to nature conservation and nature education for young people, and participated in the founding of the Boy Scouts, serving as its first leader from 1910 to 1916. In addition to his animal literature, he wrote a more naturalistic work on the ecology of animals, The Lives of Hunting Animals (1925-1928), and an autobiography, In the Footsteps of an Artist-Naturalist (1940). [Sadao Yasugi] [References] | |Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend |
アメリカの動物文学作家、画家。スコットランドに生まれ、6歳から数年間をカナダの奥地で過ごし、自然に親しんだ。のちに、トロント、ロンドン、パリで博物学と絵画を修業し、1893年アメリカに渡った。若いころから野生動物に関する観察記録をもとに動物物語を書いていたが、1898年に8編の作品を集めた『私の知っている野生動物』を出版、一躍有名になり、この書物も不朽のベストセラーとなった。その後も次々と、『シートンの動物記』として知られる動物文学の傑作を発表し、1928年にジョン・バロウズ・メダルを受けた。その作品には、自らが描いた多くの挿図が添えられている。自然保護や青少年の自然教育にも功績があり、ボーイスカウトの創設にも参画し、1910~1916年その初代団長を務めた。動物文学のほかに、動物の生態に関するより博物学的な著作『狩猟動物の生活』(1925~1928)、自叙伝『芸術家・博物学者の足跡』(1940)がある。 [八杉貞雄] [参照項目] | |出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例 |
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