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American nature writing, 1997 / selected by John A. Murray.

Murray, John A. (Added Author). Sierra Club. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0871563959 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 9780871563958 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xlv, 269 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: San Francisco, CA. : Sierra Club Books, c1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"An annual collection of new and distinguished voices in contemporary nature writing."--Cover.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Island in the stream / John A. Murray -- Gooseberry Marsh / Gretchen Legler -- Fences / John Hildebrand -- The book of being lost / Sherry Simpson -- Sing me down the mountain / Stephen Trimble -- Weeds / Susan J. Tweit -- Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders -- Homecoming / Adrienne Ross -- What the animals know / David Petersen -- Dancing with cows / Louise Wagenknecht -- Strangers in the forest / Louise Wagenknecht -- In the garden of the lords of war / Barry Lopez -- Breaking ground: a vision of Alberta's prairies / Charlene Gilmore -- The wind / Rick Kempa -- Riding whitewater, seeing shadows: divining Hell's Canyon / Susan Ewing -- Yaak: the land that Congress forgot / Rick Bass -- Statement before the Senate Subcommittee on Forest & Public Lands Management regarding the Utah Public Lands Management Act of 1995 / Terry Tempest Williams -- Sailing through the night / John Calderazzo -- Trapping wolves / Carolyn Kremers -- The music of this sphere / Jerry Dennis -- Bright angel trail: coda / Ann Zwinger -- The wolves of Yellowstone: year one / Rick McIntyre -- Becoming water / Susan Zwinger -- Coexisting / Don Schueler.
Subject:
Nature in literature.
Natural history literature > United States.
Nature > Literary collections.
American literature > 20th century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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300 . ‡axlv, 269 p. ; ‡c21 cm.
5050 . ‡aIntroduction: Island in the stream / John A. Murray -- Gooseberry Marsh / Gretchen Legler -- Fences / John Hildebrand -- The book of being lost / Sherry Simpson -- Sing me down the mountain / Stephen Trimble -- Weeds / Susan J. Tweit -- Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders -- Homecoming / Adrienne Ross -- What the animals know / David Petersen -- Dancing with cows / Louise Wagenknecht -- Strangers in the forest / Louise Wagenknecht -- In the garden of the lords of war / Barry Lopez -- Breaking ground: a vision of Alberta's prairies / Charlene Gilmore -- The wind / Rick Kempa -- Riding whitewater, seeing shadows: divining Hell's Canyon / Susan Ewing -- Yaak: the land that Congress forgot / Rick Bass -- Statement before the Senate Subcommittee on Forest & Public Lands Management regarding the Utah Public Lands Management Act of 1995 / Terry Tempest Williams -- Sailing through the night / John Calderazzo -- Trapping wolves / Carolyn Kremers -- The music of this sphere / Jerry Dennis -- Bright angel trail: coda / Ann Zwinger -- The wolves of Yellowstone: year one / Rick McIntyre -- Becoming water / Susan Zwinger -- Coexisting / Don Schueler.
500 . ‡a"An annual collection of new and distinguished voices in contemporary nature writing."--Cover.
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