Title & Author:

On nature : nature, landscape, and natural history / edited by Daniel Halpern ; advisory editors, Annie Dillard [and others].

Publication:

San Francisco : North Point Press, 1987.

Description:

319 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Nature writer's dilemma / John Hay -- Forever virgin : the American view of America / Noel Perrin -- Remembering pioneer naturalists / Howard Ensign Evans -- World of infinite variety / Ann Zwinger -- In praise of John Muir / Edward Hoagland -- View of a marsh : vitality in nature / C. John Burk -- Man, the sky, and the elephant : on Pliny's Natural history / Italo Calvino (tr. Patrick Creagh) -- Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- "Stalking with stories" : names, places, and moral narratives among the Western Apaches / Keith H. Basso -- Gifts / Richard K. Nelson -- North Beach journal / Robert Finch -- Shadows and vistas / John Haines -- Storm over the Amazon / Edward O. Wilson -- Total eclipse / Annie Dillard -- Spring / Gretel Ehrlich -- Wind upon the waters / Ralph Beer -- Return of Beaver to the Missouri river / Conger Beasley, Jr -- Rivertops / Ted Williams -- Writer's west / John Milton -- Stone horse / Barry Lopez -- Passacaglia on getting lost / Jim Harrison -- Against nature / Joyce Carol Oates -- Green man / John Fowles -- Dolphin papers / John Rodman.

ISBN:

086547284X
9780865472846
0865472831
9780865472839

Subject:

Nature.

Added entries:

Halpern, Daniel, 1945-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3195
Call No.: ID:87-B11751
Status: Available