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On nature : great writers on the great outdoors / edited by Lee Gutkind ; assistant editor, Kate Luce Angell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature.
- Natural history.
- Outdoor life.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, [2002]
- Summary:
- In this inspiring anthology, Lee Gutkind brings together twenty distinguished contemporary writers who have connected with nature and learned why we are inextricably attached to it. The evocative essays in this book comprise a wide range of experiences and adventures. In "Against Nature," Joyce Carol Oates explains why writers generally resist nature as a topic, and at the same time comments on her place in the surrounding world. Diane Ackerman swims with a right whale and her calf in "The Moon by Whale Light," and sees how the whales treat her with the same respect with which she treats them. In "Pieces of the Frame," John McPhee explores the mystery of the Loch Ness monster and the people who obsess over it. Sherry Simpson looks at the conflict-riddled business of trapping and killing Alaskan wolves, sympathizing with both the trappers and the wolves. On Nature also includes essays by such renowned voices as Mark Doty, Barry Lopez, Vaclav Havel, and Bill Bryson, all of whom share their poignant, intimate connections to the natural world.
- Contents:
- Introduction: outward bound / Lee Gutkind 1
- Nature's see-saw / Edward Hoagland 7
- The quiver of a shrub in california / Vaclav Havel 13
- Killing wolves / Sherry Simpson 19
- Against nature / Joyce Carol Oates 45
- Plain scared / Sandi Wisenberg 57
- Silver redhorse / Hal Herring 65
- The entire earth and sky / Leslie Roberts 77
- A walk in the woods / Bill Bryson 91
- Finding fossils / Deborah Archer 99
- Pieces of the frame / John Mcphee 109
- Beaches, found and nearly lost / Leslie Leyland Fields 125
- Misery / Sueellen Campbell 141
- The spray and the slamming sea / Paul Lindholdt 149
- The stone horse / Barry Lopez 161
- Love, war, and deer hunting / John Hales 177
- Learning from goats / Lucy Wilson Sherman 213
- House finches / Mark Doty 225
- From the moon by whale light / Diane Ackerman 241
- Dreaming of salmon / Kurt Hoelting 249.
- ISBN:
- 1585421731
- OCLC:
- 48951284
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