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Garden of Bristlecones
Tales of Change in the Great Basin
Häftad, 1998
385 kr
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An engaging, well-illustrated natural and cultural history of the oldest living organism—the bristlecone pine. Since Edmund Schulman discovered in 1958 that individual bristlecones live nearly 5,000 years, the trees have been investigated primarily for the elaborate record their rings contain. The …
Surveying the Interior
Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
Häftad, 2003
281 kr
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From a cartographer who wrote to a writer who mapped, the literary significance of surveying is revealed in this study of human relationships to the landscape. From the very beginning, American literature was closely intertwined with surveying. In Surveying the Interior, Rick Van Noy explores the …
Sespe Wild
Southern California's Last Free River
Häftad, 2007
203 kr
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Fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles, Sespe Creek flows through some of the wildest territory in California. To nature writer and outdoorsman Bradley John Monsma, it is the place ""that teaches me to be fully alive,"" a place that reminds us of what we've lost and inspires us to love what's left. …
Greening the Lyre
Environmental Poetics and Ethics
Häftad, 2015
378 kr
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Greening the Lyre covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. David W. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a …
Seasons of Fire
Reflections on Fire in the West
Häftad, 2001
245 kr
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David Strohmaier's long career as a firefighter has given him intimate knowledge of wildfire and its complex role in the natural world of the American West. It has also given him rare understanding of the painful losses that are a consequence of fire. Strohmaier addresses our ambivalence about fire …
Reading Trail
Häftad, 2005
314 kr
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John Muir, Mary Austin, and Gary Snyder are perhaps best known for their connection to specific California ecological regions--Muir's Sierra Nevada Range of Light, Austin's southern Land of Little Rain, and Snyder's Kitkitdizze region of the north. In Reading the Trial, ecocritic and outdoorsman …
Drift Smoke
Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire
Häftad, 2009
245 kr
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David Strohmaier's long career as a firefighter has given him intimate knowledge of wildfire and its complex role in the natural world of the American West. It has also given him rare understanding of the painful losses that are a consequence of fire. Strohmaier addresses our ambivalence about fire …
