An anthology of 66 writers exploring their relationship to what is wild within and without. Includes suggested readings in books, periodicals, and journals, and appendix of wilderness resources.

Historical fiction set during an 1856 Kansas winter, when orphaned brothers abandon their dead father's farm to pursue the idealized promise of cattle ranching.

A collection of Adams's California photographs combined with writing by California writers including Austin, Didion, Jeffers, Kerouac, King, McPhee, Muir, Stegner, Steinbeck, and Wilder.

Adams compares the popularity of Barnum to changing culture in the nineteenth century U.S.

A composer writes of nature's sounds.

Two environmental poems by Nigerian poet.

A detailed account of the way animals and plants use chemically based scents, fragrances, tastes, and odors to attack, defend, eat, and avoid being eaten. An introduction for the general reader to the science of chemical ecology, describing the transmission and reception of chemicals between organisms.

Examines the dualistic, hierarchical construction of race, gender and nature as treated by Burke, Butler and Hogan.

Memoirs of the ship's cat, based on known facts of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition.

A dark novel which challenges readers to examine the stereotypes they bring to the text; reviews note it is a change from Alexie's previously humorous and lyrical work.

A non-technical introduction to the various disciplines involved in scientific study of environments. Includes diagrams and glossary.

A selection from the poetry of a prominent Native American poet and critic.

Interprets maternal and paternal behaviorin a wide range of animals, including humans, through the lens of evolutionary biology.

Seeks to reign in expansive uses of the term pastoral and presents a formalist re-evaluation of pastoral as a literary mode.

Documents Merton's poetic transformation.

Treatment of nature, conventions, and justice in William Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Epic-style story depicts with scholarly accuracy the adventures of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the West.

Another mystery for private investigator Sonny Baca to solve; this follow-up to Anaya's Zia Summer centers on a murder at the Albuquerque balloon festival.

Arguing that environmental programs must engage emotions, an anthropologist discusses the ways traditional societies successfully manage resources based on emotional investment in religious beliefs.

Treatment of winter landscape in the poetry of a 20th century American author.

Attempts an EnglishCanadian Philosophy which questions relationships between borders and wilderness while resisting homogeneity.

Discusses Levertov and Merton as psalmists of the world.

Suggests the potential of Poststructuralism to expand the theoretical base of ecofeminist literary criticism: uses this base for analysis of "Buffalo Gals.".

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Complementary accounts of the author's lengthy sojourns in Alaska's Brooks Range; the first details her own experience of Alaska's wilds with her adventurer parents, while the second focuses on her four-year-old son and his adjustment to life in the Arctic and is appropriate for younger readers.

Treatment of nature and spirituality.

Historians explore regionalism and the relationship between history and geography.

Seeks to "improv[e] the effectiveness of the environmental debate" by examining the way "eco-language" contributes to disagreement about environmental issues.

A biography of Sigurd Olson with emphasis on "Olson the man," rather than on Olson the icon, describing his "search for meaning and fulfillment" and his engagement with ecology.

Essay detailing the spiritual and literary influence of Merton on these nature writers.

Physical and social structures evolve toward critical states contingent upon minor events, proving catastrophe and instability inevitable.

A "group biography" of Emerson and this Concord circle, based on journal entries and correspondence by Emerson and others. Introduction and Epilogue by James R. Rellon.

Economists and ecologists analyze the causes of biodiversity loss, and the measures required to reverse it.

JoAnn Burkholder discovers deadly organism in North Carolina waters and is besieged by governmental and academic bureaucracy.

Reissue of the 1959 publication by Utah naturalist Claude Barnes, based on his observations of Utah's Wasatch Range between the early 1920s and the late 1950s.

Nature's treatment by Pierre S. J. Teilhard de Chardin.

Chronicles the conflict between government agencies, environmentalists and Champion International Corporation over pollution of the Pigeon River in western North Carolina with pollutants resulting from paper production.

A plea to save the remaining wild areas of northwestern Montana's Yaak Valley, arguing that "if places like the Yaak are lost, we too are lost.".

Bass's collection of three fine novellas interweaves the natural world, character, and narrative.

Discusses the interconnections of place with the history, morals, manners, and wisdom of the Western Apache, winner of the Western States Book Award for creative nonfiction.

Memoir recounting author's growing up in the timber camps of Idaho.

Male romantacists tended to reinforce dualistic separation of human and animal, while female romantacists dismantle this dualism: includes historical purview of human view of animals.

Stories published by Baylor about his own and others' exploits, mostly on the Texas frontier; includes a biographical introduction and bibliography of related sources.

Treatment of environmental movement in "Trashing the Planet" by Dixy Lee Ray.

A collection of 20 essays by an interdisciplinary array of contributors who consider the treatment of ecological issues in the work of John Steinbeck.

The story of the author's involvement with the beluga whales of the St. Lawrence River and his attempts to understand the impact of man's carelessness on their environment.

Reissue of Belloc's 1906 narratives of travel through England and France highlight some of the most memorable adventures in the lives of the author and his companion.

Sympathetic and exhaustive biography that carefully traces the origins of Stegner's works in his experiences.

Surreal remapping of the myth of the New World through the suffering of twin sisters.

A collection of exercises to help elementary students define and appreciate their place in the world.

Essay discussing Thoreau's The Dispersion of Seeds as a successful mix of rigorous scientific observation and descriptive, lyrical prose, a combination of science and art, and its significance in the Thoreau canon.

Bergman discusses the psychology of hunting and how it has influenced Western masculinity.

Bernard discusses the experiences of nine U.S. communities who each form grassroots organizations in order to preserve their natural resources.

Reprints chapters 4, 10, 15, and 16 of Berry's 1988 The Dream of the Earth.

Poems written over a fifteen year period, dealing with themes of community, family, and Berry's Kentucky farm. First paperback edition, originally published in 1994.

The first book-length collection of critical reviews and essays about the work of Haines. Includes an interview, 17 critical essays, 11 reviews, and a selected bibliography.

Naturalist and writer narrates life in a small ranching community near Denver, raising political and philosophical issues regarding culture and the environment.

An action-packed novel of a woman's struggle in the urban environment of nineteenth-century New York City. First published in 1874.

Blanton discusses the history of travel writing from classical times to the present.

A multidisciplinary collection of fifty-two selections about the aims, practitioners, conduct, and development of agriculture.

Environmental movement in the treatment of nature in Caroline Dormon's work.

Caroline Dormon's treatment of nature and the environmental movement.

Boaz explores the ecological influences of human evolution.

Discusses the setting and atmosphere of Merton's woodland hermitage.

Relationships of religion, the self, inner life, and nature in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Researches and demonstrates the modern day reinvention of Native Americans byNative Americans; examines myths, realities and stereotypes.

Discusses Goethe's holistic, participatory science of nature, and suggests the possibility of a new science of nature based on Goethe's vision.

Controversial Russian alpinist puts in his two rubles' worth on the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy shortly before meeting his own demise.

Presents the argument that environmentalists must encourage the reform of public schools and universities to support ecologically sustainable paths for society.

Examines how current educational practices in the areas of moral education, creativity, intelligence and experiential learning are preventing the development of an ecologically sustainable future. Explores the relationship between the educational process, cultural myths and the ecological crisis.

Literary essays on mountains in southeastern Arizona where the author has lived for more than twenty years, speculating on place and intimacy. Thoughtful, loosely-connected personal essays about the author's life and work.

A collection of over 225 poems by 46 new and well-know Western poets, including Peggy Church Pond, H. L. Davis, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Norman Macleod, and Gary Short. Includes brief biographies.

Exploration of motifs of European writers who have written about America and American writers who have written about Europe.

Focuses on the relationship between scholarship and activism.

A review of the project underway to translate Eiseley's writings into Russian: and his reception with Russian readers.

A complete revision of the 1985 book Fundamentals of Physical Geography, this study describes physical and biological systems in the environment, as well as offering a regional approach with an emphasis on practicality.

Author and Pulitzer Prize winner William Broad writes a highly personal account of undersea explorations, examines the history of oceanic discovery -- scientific, commercial, military -- and warns of long and short term problems related to wholesale nuclear and other toxic dumping.

Relates the story of Woburn, MA community activists and their struggle with corporate polluters, local, state and federal agencies, and relations to experts and scientists defining toxic activism and popular epidemiology.

Examines the debate over a proposal to treat cultural and indigenous knowledge as a form of intellectual property.

Description of the cosmos as energy-sharing, an essential unity.

Bryant's New York Evening Post editorials serve to document his political and social maturity while "making over" a formerly conservative newspaper.

A collection of personal natural history essays on Long Island Sound, an area that has not yet attracted literary attention.

A cultural and historical study of human interaction with the Douglas-fir region from Euroamerican contact up to the purchase of vast forest lands in Washington. In addition to an analysis of the impact of various cultures on the land and on each other, includes discussion of twentieth-century federal laws passed to manage the natural resources and rehabilitate the ecosystem.

Traces early mythology to hunting rituals; argues that animal behavior demonstrates the natural foundations for humanity's societal rituals, its ideas of cosmic hierarchy, and its systems for negotiating relationships to the environment.

Analysis of the process of revision in "Prisoner's Base" and "Rain and the Rhinoceros.".

Article argues for a new integrative social science of nature.

Treatment of place in Southern American literature.

Suggests that Wordsworth was able to produce his best poetry about the Lake District only after seeing himself as a resident, rather than as a visitor.

This history of geographical thought seeks ultimately to integrate human with physical geography and both with other humanities and sciences.

Cadava disputes the portrayal of Emerson as an isolated individual by demonstrating the political and historical dimensions of his persistent references to weather and climate.

Discusses Edward Abbey's roots and the Appalachian influence in his writings.

When Cain's mother is diagnosed with cancer, they travel together to Iowa where Cain was raised by her hippie parents in a commune.

Essay about volcanoes and volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft.

Callenbach envisions the restoration of large herds of bison to the Great Plains, and points out the ecological and economic benefits.

By examining the historical underpinnings of Leopold's land ethic, argues that it can still be valid,with some adjustments, in spite of recent scientific developments and theories suggested bywriters like Michael Soul.

Accounts of the Plains Indians nineteenth century struggles with disease, depredation of game, and warfare; primary sources include winter counts, first person accounts, and legends.

Exploring Brooklyn's backyards invites interest in a supposed "lost creek,"found in an historical search of Gerritsen's inlet.

Twenty short essays and meditations on Campbell's excursions into and engagement with the outdoors, haunted by a vanished camp in the Rockies.

Cherokee culture, reintroduction of the red wolf, and Camuto's lyrical evocation of the place animate the southern Appalachians.

This anthology argues that discourse acts to create our environment, and discusses the problems resulting from the failure to understand the importance of that fact.

Troubled teenage couple struggle in suburbia, part, and briefly reunite in Montana where they find no resolution to their problems.

Illustrates the impact of domesticated animals on the development of civilization, arguing that the domestication of animals was an essential factor in the development and progress of human culture.

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" compared to Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.".

A philosphical exploration of how place has evolved into space in Western thought, beginning with mythological and religious creation myths, arriving finally at the modern theories of such thinkers as Bachelard, Foucault, Derrida, and Irrigiray.

More than 100 documents, most previously unpublished, about the families, friendships, work, race, public life, and secession of white Southern women living from 1811 to 1865.

Catton explores the meanings of wilderness as established by law in Alaska: is park land designated to remain as "uninhabited" wilderness by humans the natural order of things when native peoples have used it for millennia?

This atlas uses photographs, essays, and charts to explore water distribution, nuclear waste, regional literature, and many other aspects of the changing American west.

Narrative evaluation of the dangerously polarized stances of industry and environmentalism calls for dialogue on a community level.

Chalwa considers the relationships between nature, memory, and childhood in the work of five contemporary American poets.

Relationship of nature to the human body and sexual difference.

New edition of Cherry-Garrard's famous 1922 account of Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.

Ching explores the concepts of class, ethnicity, gender, nationality, and race, and how they are influenced by rural identity.

Ecocritical examination of the impact of Christianity on Salish culture as portrayed in D'Arcy McNickle's 1936 novel.

Looks at issues connected with the movement in western states to oppose federal environmental regulations.

Stories about birds at the Avian Care and Research Foundation.

Treatment of nature in film adaptation of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.

The relationship of theater and the environmental movement.

Suggestions for body training together with a postmodernist meditation on gender and wilderness.

At Fault compared to Twelve Years a Slave and Bird Talk.

Beautiful orchids on the cover lead to eight poems each in "History of the Bicycle" and "History of the Garden," celebrations of growth, weather and life.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's treatment of landscape and relationship to the ideal in Prometheus Unbound.

Aimed at academics interested in the politics of environmental regulation, this collection of articles and unpublished works of economists and political scientists examine in great technical detail environmental policies, current and future as consequences of political and economic factors.

Investigates ecological attitudes of various French poststructuralists and shows how ecological thought has been reshaped by the move away from humanism.

Role of economic value in ecological, ethical and aesthetic considerations.

Discusses Berry's understanding of the social and moral function of literature to pass on a sense of place.

Eclectic blend of travelogue, folklore, interviews and photographs.

An anthology of 47 travel narratives written by American women, with a focus on the details of day-to-day living these women encounter rather than on the physical features of the places they visit.

Environmental movement's stylistics and rhetoric.

Updated edition of 1983 book covering colonial survial to contemporary development.

This account of the battle over the creation of a toxic waste disposal facility in Noxubee County, Mississippi, highlights the intersections of race, class, and a healthy environment.

Working from theories of place, landscape, and environmental perception, the dissertation explores responses to the wilderness and to the woods from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Works discussed are Morton's New England Canaan, Bradstreet's "Contemplations," Muir's Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin, Hemingway's Nick Adams stories.

Treatment of nature and the wild man in Jack London's novels.

Springboard address for the 1995 meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society which discusses the nature of language and seeing.

Addresses themes of culture, society, politics, nature, ecology, spirituality and ethics in Tolkien's writing.

Focusing on The Lord of the Rings, the essay presents English culture, nature, and ethics as Tolkien's central concerns.

Treatment of nature and family in Southern American poetry.

Exhaustive discussion of the many historical and contemporary uses that have been made of the Mojave, including chapters on recreation, nuclear testing and waste disposal, ranching, mining, and flora and fauna.

Pedagogical approach to Margaret Atwood's treatment of wilderness.

The author, who traveled for months with the Rabari a nomadic desert people of northwestern India, recounts the difficulties they faced as well as her own physical and emotional struggles.

Davis "examines the ways in which nineteenth-century Americans looked to the actual landscape of the Holy Land as an extension of their national identity" and artistic consciousness.

Davis describes a journey through the Amazon river region, and gives a biographical account of two of his fellow ethnobotanists.

Drawing on ethnographic research, history, and cultural criticism, Davis explores the relationship between corporate capitalism and the natural environment in the form of Sea World, a nature theme park.

An anthology of original and reprinted essays on the spirit of place by twenty writers including Robert Finch, William Kittredge, Kathleen Norris, Scott Russell Sanders, and Joy Williams.

Challenging the traditional anthropocentrism of morality, author argues for a morality determined by biology; includes photo essays.

Collection of fifty short pieces on hunting, fishing, camping, and outdoor life.

Author relates the story of the once lush Brazillian (Atlantic) Forest from the first human impact to its present near-extinction.

Treatment of earth in Seamus Heaney's poetry.

Twelve essays which "examine how I actually experience nature, not by defining it, but by engaging with it as an ongoing process of encounter.".

Culturally diverse anthology of poetry on and from the American West, covering the past five hundred years.

Inspired by the migration of the monarch butterfly, this sixty-poem sequence explores the force, beauty, and intelligence of nature and humans.

Ten essays by Philander Deming (1829-1915) that speculate on the Adirondacks, wilderness, and social issues.

Suburban landscape treatment and relationship to hysteria.

Examines the development of the canine-human bond, focusing on current attitudes toward dogs and practices of breeding, training, and working them.

15 contributing authors address the relationship between the natural environment and humans.

Serves as a work of both literary criticism, in its careful treatment of Twain's various writings, and cultural criticism, in its exploration of the ways in which America's frontier shaped Twain's literary career.

Contributed papers comprising report from Lincoln Institute of Land Policy on sustainable use of land.

Traces the impact of humans on the Columbia River in the states of Washington and Oregon and the Province of Alberta from the earliest known human habitation to the present.

Collection of Documents from 1865 to the early 1990's which present the evolution of the National Park Service and conservation.

Explains how New York built its landscape into "the ultimate expression of a capitalist city" while Boston's became illustrative of "a cultural capital."

Uses inside stories of the American environmental movement to argue that compromise and capitulation have rendered the movement ineffective.

Examines the interaction of nature and culture in Campos de Castillo, in the context of the Spanish Generacion del 98 literary movement.

Description and analysis of changes in American nuclear regulations and policies.

Many excerpts from the journals of Lewis and Clark, together with numbers of full-color illustrations, illuminates the historical importance of the Corps of Discovery.

Music as a means of communing with nature.

History of human activity in the region, from Spanish incursion to the coming of the railroad, interspersed with some discussion of geography and landscape; specifically concerned with the activities of the Mormons.

The editor's selection includes excerpts from Durrell's early fiction and reveals the author's skill at evoking landscape.

Annotated bibliography of "nature writing," organized into broad categories ranging from "Specific Environments" through "Environmental Action.".

Discusses the impact of conflicts involving the US military and environmental laws.

Argues that metaphorical constructs of nature in Western Philosophy may blind ethicists to other cultural interpretations, especially since Western thought values abstract reasoning over imagination.

Response to misinformation and rhetoric, i.e., "brownlash," that minimizes the importance of global environmental problems.

In an important example of narrative scholarship in ecocriticism, Elder explores humankind's relationship to nature as reflected in the works of prominent American poets.

Writer's account of his summer spent in the Yellowstone area after the first winter of wolf re-introduction to the park.

Elkins considers Ferril as a poet of harmony with the world, considering his as a unique vision for a modern poet, but in line with the "Western paradigm.".

A collection of Austin's non-fiction journalistic works, chosen to exemplify her concern with a wide range of social issues.

In each of six volumes, scholars explore private property issues from the colonial era to the present.

Suggests alternatives to emphasis on metaphor in science studies and applies analysis to Darwin's Origin of Species.

Experts in plant biology recommend guidelines and present case studies for reintroducing endangered species to their natural habitats; legal, biological, and policy aspects of ecosystem management are addressed.

Relates the presence and absence of the city in Walden with notions of utopia and agrarian/urban politics.

Full-page photos of authors with brief passages from them about why they write about the Southwest; also includes brief biographies and bibliographies of the authors' works.

Contrasting folkloric and religious attitudes toward pigs, especially in Europe.

Collection of 19 papers on climate, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity presented at the 1991 Conference on Ancient Maya Agriculture and Biological Resource Management.

A collection of seven wide ranging essays investigating how people construct and are created by their places.

Review of the treatment of the environmental movement in Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

Ferguson retells 60 nature myths from around the world in order to "celebrate the possibilities of creation" rather than to find "explanations of how things work.".

Summarizes the cosmology of the universe, based on the big bang theory, with both scientific findings and speculation.

A collection of full-color photographs of the Great Basin, including a historical overview and many excerpts from writers of the region. Edited by Steve Roper.

Details the adventure of this 67-year-old backpacker/author as he alternatively rafts and hikes the length of the Colorado from its source to its terminus at the Sea of Cortez.

Nine essays on the symbolism, imagery, or conceptualization of animals in Medieval literature and art.

Provides an account of the famed nature artist's work and life.

Written accounts of traders, farmers, immigrants, and missionaries as they attempt to develop a sense of place along the Ohio River Valley, when it was the Northwest Frontier.

Chronicles Fouts' involvement in ape language experiments and primate advocacy through his thirty year relationship with the chimpanzee Washoe.

Proposes that "a new American mindset" appreciates the importance of environmental qualities and social considerations.

Discusses LeGuin's The Beginning Place and the symbolic meanings of the three settings: the realistic suburbia, the fantasy twilight world called Mountaintown (a borderland), and the city.

A novel about a wounded soldier's long journey home at the end of the Civil War, based on local history of the South and the author's family history.

Autobiographical criticsim of Moby-Dick and the movie Free Willy.

Argues that economic considerations devalue environmental quality when the neighborhood consists of urban poor.

Assembly of vivid, busy black-and-white photographs of the Sonoran Desert.

Focuses on the struggle to pass the 1964 Wilderness Act (contains the full text of the Wilderness Act).

A survey of the political and literary ramifications of pastoral landscape in eighteenth and early nineteenth century English poetry and travel writing.

Fuller describes a class he and a colleague taught during which students read selected works of Thoreau; went on a canoe trip; kept journals of their experiences, thoughts, impressions, and feelings; and wrote a culminating essay summarizing their experience and synthesizing their observations and insights.

A textual, historical, and literary examination of "many layers of mystery" regarding Chief Seattle's speech, published in 1887.

Account of teaching course titled "Ecofeminist Literary Criticism" including student responses to Griffin, Abbey, Silko, M. Oliver, Snyder, Gunn-Allen, Harjo, Morrison and Leslie Feinberg.

A dialog on the relationship of ecofeminst literary criticism to ecofeminism as theory and social movement.

Detailed account of Galdikas' field studies of orangutans in Indonesia since 1971 and her efforts and arguments for their preservation.

Interdisciplinary collection examining cultural and literary aspects of the sources.

Analyzes our emotional investment in dogs and their significance in twentieth-century popular culture.

A review of Francoise d'Eaubonne's pioneering writings on ecofeminsm and comment on its contemporary relevance.

A collection of thirteen essays on women writers working in scientific fields in England, Canada, Australia, and America; includes an interview with Diane Ackerman.

Collection of 18 essays by a range ecologist who seeks to understand the connections between himself and landscape as well as "the meanings and the essences" of places.

Collection of essays, based on 1996's Conference of Cities in NorthAmerica, that 1) analyzes cities in terms of environmental justice, and, 2) contrasts the growth and form of cities and regions.

Argues that oil and coal companies are waging a deliberate campaign of deception to undermine scientific reporting about the rise in global temperatures, which, Gelbspan claims, is happening faster today than at any time in the past 10,000 years.

Based on a wide variety of women's writing on the West from 1830 to 1930, the author critiques the traditional view that the western expansion and experience were strictly male activities.

A series of personal essays written during a year spent in his family's cottage after having been cured of cancer, Gessner offers insights on family, sense of place, people of the Cape, and struggles with literary forebears.

Treatment of solitude, wilderness, and asceticism in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away.

Explores the personal and socially constructed notions of nature in relationship to British nature poetry.

A collection of key essays by major figures in ecocriticism.

This literary and photographic essay explores the various ways humans have reshaped nature, affecting our "cultural construction of wildness and the role of nature as a cultural paradigm.".

Selections of environmental philosophy in the Western intellectual tradition, ranging from Xenophon and Plato in the ancient world to Rousseau and Thoreau in the nineteenth century.

Author chronicles his multi-year studies of the mechanics of extinction in East Africa's Lake Victoria of the perch-like freshwater fish (genus Haplochronis).

A comprehensive anthology of ecotheology, from traditional religions to ecofeminist theology.

Argues that evolution does not automatically progress toward complexity.

A cultural geographer examines the ways in which wilderness functions as a symbol of geopiety.

A selection of poems from the author's first five books.

Treatment of landscape of the American South in novels of William Faulkner.

Applies contemporary knowledge about the natural sciences to interpreting ancient texts.

Seventeen critical essays by geographers, historians, landscape architects, and writers, inquiring "new directions in cultural landscape studies" from interdisciplinary perspectives.

A collection of essays concerning the canoe country of the Minnesota-Ontario border, speculating on wildness, wilderness, beauty, and human lives.

Gurney reviews the history of exploration from Aristotle to early global circumnavigation, explains challenges of ocean travel, and briefly summarizes major south pole explorers (Edmond Halley, James Cook, James Weddell, Matthew Brisbane, John Biscoe, and Peter Kemp and John Balleny).

Examines Merwin's use of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire in the poetic development of his "mythic consciousness" of nature.

Contemplations on nature, experience, and language.

Review of new academic program.

In essays and letters Haines reflects on poetry, the arts, the creative spirit, wilderness, and nature.

An anthology of environmental literature by writers, poets, and novelists, including Dillard, Nelson, Abram, Lopez, Hass, Snyder, Merwin, Garcia Marquez, and Calvino; partially reprinted from On Nature.

A collection of essays discussing the tradition of confusion surrounding the barrier that divides human from animal, exploring the ways in which these two supposedly contradictory natures reveal themselves in written texts, cartoons, zoos, and performance acts.

A feminist approach to the treatment of nature in Australian poetry.

A novel of three men's river trip on the Colorado River through Glen Canyon, raising issues of human control of nature.

Collection of 21 E. F. Schumacher Society lectures on environmental economics, sustainability, and ethics. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Thomas Berry, Kirkpatrick Sale, David Orr, and David Brower.

Hanson recounts events on a small farm in SanJoaquin Valley, 1981-1993 and argues that we have now entered the "third wave of American agrarianism.".

The author explores connections between feminism and science, examining: reproductive technology and freedom, the Human Genome Project, evolutionary biology, biological approaches to race, medical technology, the cyborg in ecology.

Examines hydroelectric dam construction on the Columbia River in the states of Washington and Oregon and its impact on salmon fishing and Native American cultures.

Treatment of ecology in Washington Irving's Western literature.

Determinism and place in African-American experience.

Approaching the essence of "Being" by examining our dwelling place; references to Rilke and Thoreau.

Environmental narrative, including many photographs taken by leading nature photographers, detailing the fight to save Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park.

Argues for moving away from technological fixes and human-centered theologies to the development of a workable ecotheology, a blending of personal spirituality and political vision.

Father and son recount their ocean voyage around Cape Horn.

Explores the great questions of science (chemistry, physics, earth science, and biochemistry) that have not yet been answered. Non-fiction Science History.

A novel about two teenage sisters' attempt to survive in the forests of Northern California after society's complete collapse.

A description, framed by Heinselman's representation of ecosystems as unified and holistic communities, of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness along the Minnesota/Ontario border.

Landscape's ideology, nationalism and relationship to rural society in 19th century Britain.

Discusses the parallels of each author's awakening in Walden and Seven Storey Mountain.

An anthology of nonfiction by thirty-two contemporary Minnesota writers who speculate on local landscape, city, wilderness, place, and life.

Rhetorical essays analyze environmentalism treating nature as resource, nature as subject of biology or nature as inspiration to compose.

A narrative of the author's voyage down the Yukon River, offering reflections on intrapersonal relationships in a sparsely populated landscape and thoughts regarding the elemental interactions with nature that can still take place in such regions.

A compendium of arachnid lore, presenting spiders as both culturally-freighted symbols and highly-differentiated biological animals.

An analysis of a Native American rhetoric by which meaning and environments are intertwined.

First volume in a series examining the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, collecting Baxter's writings and commentary on the expedition's aims, achievements, and personalities.

A new entry in the Understanding Contemporary Literature series, discussing Merwin's numerous works of poetry in terms of myth, ecology, society, and love.

Examines the development of human attitudes to the animal world as reflected in essays that discuss the practice of collecting animals. Essays range from the early period of "menageries" to present day zoological parks.

Relationship of nature to senses and imagination in William Wordsworth's The Prelude.

Landscape treatment of Western United States in Thomas Wolfe's A Western Journal.

Reflections by the author on his travels in the American West, including his pleas for preservation of the West and accounts of his encounters with westerners.

Examines the lives of Einstein and other Twentieth Century physicists to illustrate the appropriate place of science in the modern world.

Southern English landscapes of Thomas Hardy compared to Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys, and Edward Thomas.

Approaching limits of scientific discovery in many fields from physics to sociobiology. A history of recent scientific discoveries and interviews with prominent scientists are used to promote the author's contention that great scientific discoveries are a thing of the past.

An environmental columnist and author lives on an island for three years, observes and interviews the community of 150 families, and critiques the environmental decline of the island.

Treatment of place in the poetry of William Wordsworth compared to landscape painting by John Constable.

Collection of essays on medieval representations of animals.

A collection of paintings with text discussing the painter's biography and art.

The world of the ants of La Selva nature reserve in Costa Rica, presented from the ants' own point of view.

History of St. Louis' struggles with environmental hazards such as sewage, pollution, smoke, and fire, and suggestions for improved management of the St. Louis environment in the future.

An anthropological study of the "relationships between people and the sea in the Marovo Lagoon of New Georgia" in the Southern Pacific.

A history of Niagara Falls, exploring America's fascination with technology and its belief in human mastery over the environment.

A naturalist details his adventures in India and South Asia as he searches for the threatened tiger in its rapidly vanishing habitat.

Biologist and ecologist Wes Jackson applies the concept of place to a rethinking of ecological and agricultural policy.

A systematic look at the back-to-the-land movement in North America (mainly United States), includes profiles, case studies and surveys.

Medical technology and ecology in Marge Piercy and Ernst Friedrich Schumacher.

Draws parallels between East German writer Christa Wolf and well-known ecofeminsts including Susan Griffin, Starhawk, and Riane Eisler.

Twenty-four essays by scholars from the UK, US, France, Canada, Germany, and Ireland, covering the "contents and context of natural history from the sixteenth century to the present.".

Singer/songwriter Diane Jarvi's first book of poetry.

A journey, prompted by the breakup of Jenkin's marriage, from the Florida Keys to Texas aboard a twenty-five foot cruiser.

Essays on women and agriculture, including such topics as Native American women, Southern women, women on the frontier, and rural women, with a photo essay on women in the depression.

Account of human evolution including a photo album and history of paleoanthropology.

A readable exploration of the role of the west in recent American culture.

Sailor and journalist Donald Johnson travels into the cartographic imaginations of ancient mapmakers as he reveals the legends of seven mythical islands -- that never really existed -- but were reputed to exist in the Atlantic Ocean.

Article exploring spirtuality in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Cross Creek by describing homemaking as attending to the details of nurturing the physical and spiritual existence.

Landscape and Suburbs in the poetry of John Keats.

Illustrated guide to the lore and traditional associations of plants common in Britain.

Comparison of nature to human activity in a Swinburne poem.

Discusses writings from the antebellum Old Southwest (also known as the Lower South) (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi) and how the authors treated place, setting, and landscape in their writings.

Suggestions for teaching children a biocentric perspective.

Nature in the poetry of Ann Yearsley compared to William Wordsworth.

Mixes travel writing with international studies; Kaplan travels eastward from west Africa to South Asia, with a special focus on Iran.

Photographic history of Yellowstone National Park focusing on human activity in the park.

Thirty essays, most previously unpublished, on stewardship and its underpinnings, by Wendell Berry, Alston Chase, Bill McKibben, C.L.Rawlins, Jack Turner, Gerald Vizenor, and others.

Ecocritical analysis of 1920's opera Rise and Fall of The City of Mahogonny.

Collection of essays on environmental philosophy focusing on: moral issues of nature, restoration of nature, genocide and environmental justice, and Judaism and traditional ethics as they relate to the ecological crisis.

Discusses the principles of self-organization and their application to a variety of human endeavors.

Kaufman writes women (travelers, mountain climbers, park founders, environmentalists, wives, and park rangers) back into the history of the National Park system.

The author, a literary critic keenly interested in literature's role in life and vice versa, presents selected memoirs from his journals from the period 1938-1995.

Explores the biophilia hypothesis, the "human affinity for life," as it relates to struggles for biodiversity.

Homey, Robinson Crusoe-like tale, originally published in 1920, of the author's winter with his young son and an old-timer on an island in south-central Alaska; thick with details of their daily routines and appropriate for younger readers.

Investigation of the evolution of the Sacagawea legend as a case study for the creation of and changes in certain aspects of the dominant culture in America.

Review of Sharona Ben-Tov's study The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction and American Reality.

The author recounts the affect that nature and outdoor sports (such as deer hunting and fishing) have had on his life.

Anthropomorphic treatment of nature in Walt Disney Company documentary and animated film.

Reprint of King's classic 1872 account of geological explorations in California.

Kinsley contextualizes contemporary ecological spirituality in terms of history and cultural anthropology.

Argues that Refuge problematizes the female nature/ male nature, culture dichotomies: rather than embracing it, as critics contend.

A collection of reviews, interviews, and essays by the editor and others, examining Dickey's career.

Essays divided into three parts focus on past and present images of the west, enjoining readers to adapt their view of West from conquest to community.

The founder of the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program shares essays on living close to the land during winter.

A collection of essays on farming, animals, natural phenomena, and community around the farm where the writer has lived more than fifty years.

Non-fiction History Public-policy.

A poetic rendering of an encounter with a bear.

Role, ecology, and extinction of Kii Peninsula wolves.

Wilderness in the prose and poetry of Wendell Berry.

Points to some of the dangers of "romantic" ecology and phenomenology but contends that both phenomenology and ecological philosophy can lead to a healthier acceptance of responsibility.

Article discussing the poetry of Alexander Posey, emphasizing his Native American heritage, his descriptions of landscape, and his treatment of Native Americans; comparing and contrasting Posey's work with the work of Thoreau, particularly their views of Native Americans.

Study of violence in American fiction including chapters on James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O' Connor and Thomas Pynchon.

Thirteen essays divided among four sections: Nature and Place in Western Writing, Reimagininig the American Frontier, Modern Western Revisions, and Contemporary Western Writing.

Companion to the PBS special The Gold Rush, this collection contains more than 100 selections divided into four sections: Before the Rush, Getting There, Gold Rush Life, and Legacies.

Explores the motive and mystery of Chris McCandless, a young hiker whose corpse was found four months after he walked into the Alaska wilderness in 1992.

Recalls the author's guided climb and the death of nine companions during a surprise storm, and the subsequent scrutiny of the accident within the mountaineering community.

Touching and sometimes bizarre short stories set amid the stark desert and surreal casinos of Nevada; many are concerned with people struggling to come to terms with the complexities and idiosyncrasies of life in the Great Basin.

Analysis of the influence of Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, and Hart Crane on Merton.

Offers critiques of writers such as Orestes Brownson, Caroline Gordon, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Daniel Berrigan.

Highlights and analyzes nature as a theme in Lawrence's writings and life. An ecocritical study examining "what Lawrence found in his life-long relationship to the earth." Introduced by Thomas J. Lyon, the book presents Lawrence as a holistic environmental writer.

Study of primarily nonfiction American road books written between 1903 and 1994.

Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Friends of the Earth, this work offers an inside perspective on the development of Britain's first environmental campaign-oriented group.

A chemical analysis of prehistoric human materials from stone to metals, arguing that "chemistry has been a constant companion in the development of civilization.".

Samples of writing from throughout Austin's career and from various genres, intended to suggest to first-time readers her range and her concern with issues like feminism and ecology.

Interdisciplinary study of the wren, weaving natural history, biology, folklore and literature, asking how "symbolic views affect the treatment of . . . animals.".

The pastoral tradition provides Victorian writers with both literal and discursive space to express feelings of homosexual desire.

A novella that follows a ragged young rancher's life in the deserts and mountains of eastern California and northern Nevada.

A comprehensive biography of Rachel Carson's private and professional life based on many previously unavailable personal documents.

Covers recent neurological research about the nature and origins of human emotion.

Rigorous rational analysis and evaluation of the ethical criticism of agriculture, animal welfare, biotechnology and human nature.

Cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan speaks of our sometimes paradoxical relationship with nature and our sense of place and space.

Insights, observations and philosophical musings on his interactions with the environment, people and animals of the Minnesota woods.

Argues that the human race is in "imminent danger" of destruction at the hands of causes ranging from asteroid collisions to genetic engineering.

A collection of eleven articles on environmental ethics from the perspective of an integra