Accidental gravity : residents, travelers, and the landscape of memory / Bernard Quetchenbach.

Main entry:

Quetchenbach, Bernard W., 1955- author.

Title & Author:

Accidental gravity : residents, travelers, and the landscape of memory / Bernard Quetchenbach.

Publication:

Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2017.
©2017

Description:

ix, 226 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: the music of circumstance -- I -- Peregrines -- You Can't Always Want What You Want -- Canadas -- Summertime -- Ferry Crossing -- Black-Throated Blue -- Thing in the Woods -- II -- Travelers -- In Wonderland -- The Woods are Burning -- Red Summer -- Invaders -- A Good Bear -- Confluence -- Coda -- Billings, Montana.

Summary:

"The compelling essays in Bernard Quetchenbach's Accidental Gravity move from upstate New York to the western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild lands. In the first section of the book, he focuses on suburban neighborhoods, where residents respond ambivalently to golf-course geese and other unruly natural presences; in the second section, he juxtaposes these humanized places with Yellowstone National Park. Quetchenbach writes about current environmental issues in the Greater Yellowstone area--wildfire, invasive species, ever-increasing numbers of tourists--in the context of climate change and other contemporary pressures. Accidental Gravity negotiates the difficult edge between a naive belief in an enduring, unassailable natural world and the equally naive belief that human life takes place in some unnatural, more mediated context. The title refers to the accidental but nonetheless meaningful nexus where the personal meets and combines with the universal--those serendipitous moments when the individual life connects to the larger rhythms of time and planet"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780870718878 paperback
0870718878 paperback
ebook
9780870718885

Subject:

Nature and civilization United States.
Environmental protection Yellowstone National Park.
Nature et civilisation États-Unis.
Environnement Protection Yellowstone National Park.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS Essays.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Personal Memoirs.
NATURE Essays.
Environmental protection.
Nature and civilization.
United States.
United States Yellowstone National Park.

Form/genre:

Essay
Essays.
essays.
Essais.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295171
Call No.: BIB 241246
Status: Available

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