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The Paradise Notebooks : 90 Miles across the Sierra Nevada.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nevle, Richard J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Natural history--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).
- United States--Sierra Nevada.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Considers twenty-one elements of the Sierra Nevada-from granite to aspen to a species of butterfly-in pairs of essays. The first looks at the natural history and science of each element; the second treats the element through poetry and the lens of mysticism. Interwoven are vignettes from a 2017 backpacking trip"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Setting out
- Granite
- Obsidian
- Roof pendants
- Brokenness
- Clouds
- Snow
- Glacier
- River
- Forest
- Fire
- Bighorn
- Aspen
- Paintbrush
- Whitebark and nutcracker
- Pileated woodpecker
- Belding's ground squirrel
- Mountain chickadee
- Mountain yellow-legged frog
- Western tanager
- Sierra Nevada Parnassian
- Wolf lichen
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501762819
- 1501762818
- OCLC:
- 1260173620
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