Fauna and flora, earth and sky : brushes with nature's wisdom / Trudy Dittmar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dittmar, Trudy, 1944-

Series:

Sightline books.

Sightline books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--West (U.S.).

Natural history.

Mountain animals--West (U.S.).

Mountain animals.

Human ecology.

Dittmar, Trudy, 1944-.

Dittmar, Trudy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""[Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky] is, in fact, the most intelligent, thoughtful, original, challenging, and highly entertaining work of nature writing since Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams. . . . It is her broad scope of contemplation, combined with her fiercely beautiful and detailed renderings of passion, natural and human, that give Trudy Dittmar's first but fully mature book its remarkable originality and considerable power."" --Robert Finch,Los Angeles Times Book Review""Honest self-scrutiny is irresistible, especially when told with a knack for diction of place, as this author demonstrates o

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Prologue; Pronghorn; Cows, Arrogance, the Natures of Things; The Porcupine's Old Clothes; Moose; Going to Rainbow; Paedomorph Pools and Other Blighted Bounties; Cache; Still Point; Wolf Show, Truman, Ersatz Moon; Men and the Blue Lights of Nature

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587294426

1587294427

OCLC:

56109472