| Description |
xiii, 498 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword by Gretel Ehrlich -- Writing wild -- Animals : The courage of turtles -- The war in the woods -- Hailing the elusory mountain lion -- Howling back at the wolves -- Bears, bears, bears -- Lament the red wolf -- Nature's seesaw -- Wild things -- Behold now behemoth -- Places : Of cows and Cambodia -- Walking the dead Diamond River -- Mountain notch -- Up the Black to Chalkyitsik -- In Okefenokee -- O Wyoming -- Wowlas and coral -- I have seen the elephant -- A peaceable kingdom -- Earth's eye -- Natural light -- People : In praise of John Muir -- About H.D. Thoreau -- Abbey's road -- Ansel Adams at 100 -- Selborne's sage -- An Edward Hoagland checklist. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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Nature.
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| ISBN |
1585746525 |
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