Nature Writing

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134980779
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature Writing by : Don Scheese

Download or read book Nature Writing written by Don Scheese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American writers. He documents the emergence of the modern form of nature writing as a reaction to industrialization. Scheese's personal observations of natural settings sharpen the reader's understanding of the dynamics between author and locale. His study is further informed by ample use of illustrations and close readings core writers such as Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Austin showing how each writer's work exemplifies the pastoral tradition and celebrate a spirit of place in the United States.

Nature's Writers

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Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 084783199X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature's Writers by : Donald S. Clark

Download or read book Nature's Writers written by Donald S. Clark and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic celebration of the landscapes that have influenced some of America’s most important nature writers—from John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams to Barbara Kingsolver. Since 2019, Donald S. Clark has documented the places that have been instrumental in influencing the lives and words of both historic and contemporary nature and environmental writers throughout the United States. While we have always felt their passionate connection to their own environments, no book has ever made this visual connection between writers and their land before—the relationship between prose and place. Featuring more than 40 of America’s most important writers, the content is as far-reaching as America itself: from sea to shining sea, forest to prairie, and mountain to coastline. Accompanying each gallery of stunning photography is a selected excerpt by the writer about their land. With the increasingly noticeable effects of climate change, the significance of these writers—and their personal connections to the environment—is even more timely. This unique and compelling story of the land and how it has inspired some of our greatest poets and authors will make a wonderful gift for budding environmentalists, students of nature writing, or anyone interested in conservation.

Literature and Nature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and Nature by : Bridget Keegan

Download or read book Literature and Nature written by Bridget Keegan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Nature exposes students to the tremendous diversity of literacy responses to the physical environment. The selections cover four centuries of the best nature writing produced in Britain and America from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. The book includes contributions by writers from all walks of life - men and women of different races, classes and nationalities, each of whom adds a unique perspective to our understanding of the literary representation of the natural world. Contents include a variety of literary forms, including poems, short stories, non-fiction essays, travel narratives, and excerpts from novels. These varied selections reveal how concern for the environment cuts across differences of gender, social class, education, religion, race, and ethnicity. Literature and Nature provides a wide range of texts, from both well-known and less-familiar writers, and it offers students a broad base of knowledge from which to reflect and respond.

Strange Natures

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230974
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange Natures by : Kent H. Redford

Download or read book Strange Natures written by Kent H. Redford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between what is natural and what is human-made, which has informed conservation for centuries, has become blurred. When scientists can reshape genes more or less at will, what does it mean to conserve nature? The tools of synthetic biology are changing the way we answer that question. Gene editing technology is already transforming the agriculture and biotechnology industries. What happens if synthetic biology is also used in conservation to control invasive species, fight wildlife disease, or even bring extinct species back from the dead? Conservation scientist Kent Redford and geographer Bill Adams turn to synthetic biology, ecological restoration, political ecology, and de-extinction studies and propose a thoroughly innovative vision for protecting nature.

Natural State

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520212091
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Natural State by : Steven Gilbar

Download or read book Natural State written by Steven Gilbar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers—be they naturalists or armchair explorers—will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire), the book contains essays, diary entries, and excerpts from larger works, including fiction. As a prelude to the collection, editor Steven Gilbar presents two California Indian creation myths, one a Cahto narrative and the other an A-juma-wi story as told by Darryl Babe Wilson. Familiar names appear in these pages—John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, John McPhee, M.F.K. Fisher, Gretel Ehrlich—but less familiar writers such as Daniel Duane, Margaret Millar, and John McKinney are also included. Among the gems in this treasure trove are Jack Kerouac on climbing Mt. Matterhorn, Barry Lopez on snow geese migration at Tule Lake, Edward Abbey on Death Valley, Henry Miller on Big Sur, and Joan Didion on the Santa Ana winds. Gary Snyder's inspiring Afterword reflects the spirit of environmentalism that runs throughout the book. Natural State also reveals the many changes to California's landscape that have occurred in geological time and in human terms. More than a book of "nature writing," this book is superb writing about nature.

A Natural History of Nature Writing

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Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610912470
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis A Natural History of Nature Writing by : Frank Stewart

Download or read book A Natural History of Nature Writing written by Frank Stewart and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Natural History of Nature Writing is a penetrating overview of the origins and development of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and compelling prose the lives and works of the most prominent American nature writers of the19th and 20th centuries, including: Henry D. Thoreau, the father of American nature writing. John Burroughs, a schoolteacher and failed businessman who found his calling as a writer and elevated the nature essay to a loved and respected literary form. John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, who celebrated the wilderness of the Far West as few before him had. Aldo Leopold, a Forest Service employee and scholar who extended our moral responsibility to include all animals and plants. Rachel Carson, a scientist who raised the consciousness of the nation by revealing the catastrophic effects of human intervention on the Earth's living systems. Edward Abbey, an outspoken activist who charted the boundaries of ecological responsibility and pushed these boundaries to political extremes. Stewart highlights the controversies ignited by the powerful and eloquent prose of these and other writers with their expansive – and often strongly political – points of view. Combining a deeply-felt sense of wonder at the beauty surrounding us with a rare ability to capture and explain the meaning of that beauty, nature writers have had a profound effect on American culture and politics. A Natural History of Nature Writing is an insightful examination of an important body of American literature.

Earth Joy Writing

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Publisher : Ashland Creek Press
ISBN 13 : 161822039X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis Earth Joy Writing by : Cassie Premo Steele

Download or read book Earth Joy Writing written by Cassie Premo Steele and published by Ashland Creek Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seasonal journey to creative and joyful writing In Earth Joy Writing, Cassie Premo Steele draws upon her life’s work as a teacher of writing, literature, and mindfulness to help writers foster a greater connection between the natural world and their own creativity. Earth Joy Writing is a writer’s guide to reconnecting to the earth. In chapters divided by seasons and months of the year, this book will guide you through reflections, exercises, meditations, and journaling prompts—all designed to help you connect more deeply with yourself, others, and your natural surroundings. Weaving together poetry, stories, and cultural wisdom, Earth Joy Writing invites us to consider our connection to the earth and offers hands-on exercises that will help us meaningfully reconnect with our creative selves and with the planet we all share.

Conserving Words

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327594
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Conserving Words by : Daniel J. Philippon

Download or read book Conserving Words written by Daniel J. Philippon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls “conserving” words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how “conserving” words enabled narratives to convey environmental values as they explained how human beings should interact with the nonhuman world.

This Vast Book of Nature

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297140
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis This Vast Book of Nature by : Pavel Cenkl

Download or read book This Vast Book of Nature written by Pavel Cenkl and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire---and, by implication, other wild places---have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic. Starting with an exploration of Jeremy Belknap’s 1784 expedition to Mount Washington, which Cenkl links to the origins of tourism in the White Mountains, to the transformation of touristic and residential relationships to landscape, This Vast Book of Nature explores the ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically, through settlement, development, and---most recently---preservation, a process that continues today.

Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing

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Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874803624
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing by : Scott Slovic

Download or read book Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing written by Scott Slovic and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vesper Flights

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146694
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Vesper Flights by : Helen Macdonald

Download or read book Vesper Flights written by Helen Macdonald and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.

The Star in the Sycamore

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Publisher : Mission Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781950659654
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis The Star in the Sycamore by : Tom Springer

Download or read book The Star in the Sycamore written by Tom Springer and published by Mission Point Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the "wild nearby," we can still discover places rich in natural mysteries. Tom Springer finds them in secret urban fishing holes, motherly old trees and even the curious link between stars, trees and souls.

Such News of the Land

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650980
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis Such News of the Land by : Thomas S. Edwards

Download or read book Such News of the Land written by Thomas S. Edwards and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new essays establishes women's voices as a powerful presence in US nature writing.

Writing About Nature

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826330857
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing About Nature by : John A. Murray

Download or read book Writing About Nature written by John A. Murray and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook covers genres, techniques, and publication issues for aspiring writers, scholars, and students who want to share their experiences in nature and the outdoors.

A Year in Nature

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ISBN 13 : 9781733653435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)

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Book Synopsis A Year in Nature by : Clare Walker Leslie

Download or read book A Year in Nature written by Clare Walker Leslie and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the Winter Solstice and going through the twelve months of the year, the author has chosen pages from her own illustrated, hand-written journals of the last three years revealing her reflections, doubts, joys, responses to both family, political, environmental worries and the deep solace she continually finds going out into her local nature-- adapted from Amazon.

The Woods Stretched for Miles

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820320878
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis The Woods Stretched for Miles by : John Lane

Download or read book The Woods Stretched for Miles written by John Lane and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers essays about the southern landscape and nature by eighteen writers with ties to the region

Beyond Nature Writing

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920146
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond Nature Writing by : Karla Armbruster

Download or read book Beyond Nature Writing written by Karla Armbruster and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together, their work signals a new direction in the field and offers refreshingly original insights into a broad spectrum of texts.