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 integrated discipline of geography and philosophy.

Detailed discussion of a classic dog story, traced from its source in Muir's experience, through oral and early written versions to its final published form.

Suggests study of bioregionalism as an approach to American literature and as a means to infuse vitality into scholarship, writing and education.

Examination of a pastoral ideology in Twain's Life on The Mississippi using the term pastoral as presented by Leo Marx.

Art critic and activist discusses culture and place, examining place description in landscape painting, photography, and film.

Collection of beautiful, glossy pictures of the Grand Canyon with an emphasis on the Colorado River and the ways that water plays an integral role in the appearance and appreciation of the Canyon.

Ecological relationships in the poetry and prose of Edward Thomas.

Transcript of a presentation on "Artists and Environment" at the Land, Air, Water Conference, spring of 1993.

An essay previously published in Orion and Field Notes, accompanied by a number of illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Account of the author's summers catching salmon in Alaska's Cook Inlet and growing to know and love the surrounding area.

Trickster Coyote, Bear, Raven, and others live in modern times and mix it up with each other and with humans, Indian and white, in this entry in the Western Literature Series.

Examines the contradictions of colonial space as they appear in journey quest narratives.

Natural and cultural history of thepark and surrounding area, including a discussion of preservation efforts and scientific study taking place there.

Two views of Clam Lake and the call of the loons.

A critical survey examining the political and ideological implications of ecological criticism as practiced by environmental activist groups, writers, and critics.

Burroughs provides a model for nature writing that is both truthful to nature and satisfying literature. Treatment of: Chief Seattle, spirituality, nature fakers, Bambi movie vs. novel.

Literary essays on flyfishing as a sport, a leisure activity, and a life discipline.

Covering a five year period after the author's divorce, Lyons and his daughter explore life, their relationship, and the West.

This collection of 14 essays on major Western philosophers challenges the image of philosophers as detached from nature, and illustrates the connections between ecology, political economy, and social theory.

Treatment of Abra Phillips character and relationship to nature in Joan Barfoot novel.

Colors of trees and fruit as a means of healing grief.

Examines the relationship between nature and society and human survival in London's novel.

"This study examines the process of cultural adaptation and persistence among the natives of eastern Massachusetts in the century following political and demographic subordination" (beginning circa 1676).

Criticizes the Endangered Species Act as impractical and ineffective and advocates a compromise between the claims of economy and ecology.

Discusses attempts to end abusive logging and gold mining responsible for destruction of the Big Blackfoot River in Montana.

Book compares the world of the theatre to the natural world in an attempt to create a more universal way of experiencing drama.

The artist writes about nature and art, accompanied by photographs of her drawings.

Re-examines progress as a concept and the notion of science as truth in the face of current problems resulting from scientific and technological advances.

Speaks of the "re-enchantment of the world" through acceptance of and respect for the world as it is.

Overview from first appearance of hominids through technological breakthroughs in late 20th century.

The second novel in Matthiessen's Watson trilogy, and a sequel to Killing Mister Watson (1990), this novel is set on the early twentieth-century South Florida frontier.

Fourteen essays that pursue "natural and cultural glory" in Montana, Alaska, Ireland, Italy, and Mongolia.

Using examples from governmental practices in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, this work examines intergovernmental relations in times of ecological crisis with particular emphasis on sustainable management strategies.

This study examines the early narrative construction of the American environment as a function of "domestic Orientalism." It discusses works by the following authors: John Underhill, Mary Rowlandson, James Fenimore Cooper, Lafayette Bunnell, Clarence King, Bill McKibben, Rebecca Solnit.

Suggests analyzing environmentalism as mode for exercising power over real territories: describes environmnet as performer in the movie Land of Little Rain about Mary Austin.

Treatment of wilderness in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

An autobiography of a major figure in the development of twentieth-century environmental consciousness, including anecdotes of famous personages.

Conservationist and rancher, McNamee presents a daily chronicle of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone.

An examination of the Navajo world, including chapters on mountains, rock formations, earth and sky, rivers and streams, plant, animals and the sacredness of the physical world; concludes with look at Anasazi, traders, archeologists and spirituality.

Study of agricultural practices through historical and literary documents.

A collection of essays first presented at the 1996 symposium on Stegner by writers, geographers, literary critics, biologists, and historians, exploring the significance of Stegner's life.

Theorizes the ways we use landscape as a figure of speech in literature to produce meaning.

Romantic writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth compared to romantic landscape paintings of Joseph Mallord William Turner and Caspar David Friedrich.

Analyzes Thoreau's representations of place in Walden, drawing upon scholarship from human geography to formulate an ecocritical approach.

Covers Merton's years at Columbia, St. Bonaventure, trip to Cuba, and decision to become a Trappist monk.

Covers Merton's early monastic years.

Covers monastic years of writing, teaching, reading, desire for more solitude.

Covers his anti-war writing, social concerns, transformation into incarnational humanism.

Correspondence about literature, solitude, religious experience.

Covers solitude in the hermitage, affair with a nurse, recommitment to monastic life.

Covers world events, assassinations of the early 1960s, Merton's move to his hermitage and prolific writing.

Review article discussing Edward Abbey's individualistic approach to nature writing; his rejection of transcendentalism, romanticism, and idealism; his emphasis on material reality; and his radical rationale for the preservation of wilderness.

Re-evaluates the life of Robert Frost, highlighting his 25-year affair after his wife's death and repairing the damage his character suffered from Lawrence Thompson's earlier biography.

Easy to read, conversational tone encourages all to discard old ways of thinking, like growth is good, and learn new ways of thinking based on the basic principals of the interdependency of environmental systems.

Treatment of patterning in nature in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter.

Compiled from earlier volumes of Environmental History Review and Environmental Review reflecting growth of this field.

Collection of essays that assesses the development of the forestry profession, analyze its political and scientific controversies, and considers competing claims of sport, recreation, and industry on national forest resources.

An anthropological analysis of environmental discourse, focusing on its cultural implications, and arguing for the importance of cultural research regarding environmental issues.

Thirty-eight short pieces written over a thirty-year period and divided into three parts: The Man Made of Words, Essays in Place, and The Storyteller and His Art.

Theories of George Dekker and Edward W. Said in the fiction of Jessie Kesson.

Treatment of place and landscape in Native-American literature.

A survey of the Grand Canyon area, both within and without the boundaries of the national park, examining the power structures which allocate control of the land.

Inhumanism exposes anthropocentric constructs of nature: writers with inhumanist perspectives are excluded from literary anthologies.

Nature and Landscape in Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod.

An examination of the development of Wild West Shows and the lives and experiences of the "Show Indians" who performed in them, from the years 1883-1933, and the public images and policy spawned by these productions.

A compilation of Muir's notes and stories, taken from journal entries written during his many trips to Alaska.

A review of the way in which Native American texts function in the context of environmental literature courses.

A review of syllabi and assignments in two environmental literature courses.

Detailed travel guide explores six desert provinces of North America with full descriptions and color photographs.

A collection of twenty-four essays that explores the relationships among natural diversity, cultural diversity, and community stability.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to landscape architecture; his influence on Robert Morris Copeland and William Shaler Cleveland.

A poetic meditation upon villagers' resistance to a factory in Meethapur, a suburban village near Delhi.

Professor of Islamic Studies outlines the history of human alienation from nature due to secular science and argues the importance of regaining a sacred, pan-religious understanding of nature.

Examines how place names reveal more about the name than the place with topics ranging from the Middle East to the Moon.

Nelson, a conservationist and subsistence hunter, explores the relationship between humans and deer in North America.

Newfield considers Emerson's tendency to compromise his commitment to democracy by defining individual rights in terms of submission to immutable laws.

An excerpt from the author's novel in progress, The Voice of the Butterfly.

A freewheeling essay that covers a wide range of environmental and social issues.

Stories about the people and natural history of the Inland Northwest.

Autobiographical account of the 1993 Gobi Desert expedition which led to the discovery of the dinosaur Xanadu (includes illustrations and photographs).

Traces author's life as she recovers from a divorce and begins work with a National Park Rescue Team, eventually using her tracking skills to follow the path of significant events in her own life.

Merton's mature spirituality as lived in his hermitage in the woods.

A documentary filmmaker describes the clash of miners, loggers, indigenous people, and environmentalists in the Brazilian rainforest.

Legends surrounding the falls in the Catskill Mountains of NewYork.

Parallels the reflections of Thomas Berry with Merton's emphasis on creation and christology.

Outlines the biographical origins of Hemingway's disillusioned portrait of Native Americans and the wilderness.

A thorough and passionate argument for the necessity of a religious response to ecological degradation.

Essay proposing that we are all tourists and our goal should be to celebrate Nature, home, community.

Poems, fiction, essays by 44 writers who explore the empowering relation between place and the sacred.

Epistolary novel about Virginian woman who moves to New Mexico and writes home to her sister from 1867 to 1930.

Michael Blake's Dances with Wolves compared to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in the domains of self-discovery, colonialism, and nature.

Outwater attempts to explain the natural and human history of water use, from the effects of beavers to water treatment and sewage handling.

This novel houses a murder mystery, a lesson in ecological metaphysics, and Cherokee myth and ritual all placed in the desert of central New Mexico.

Collection of 55 poems dealing with the interrelationship of people and nature.

Presents a detailed examination of representative rivers in all geographic regions of the US with a focus on the necessity of river preservation.

Society and nature in Akira Kurosawa film.

An examination of issues surrounding the interpretation of Native American culture and religions, in particular by non-native scholars.

After being diagnosed with a heart ailment, the author travels from Mexico to Alaska via a motorcycle.

Discusses the role and methods of nature writers from early colonial times to the present day in stirring public awareness of conservation issues, shaping the public discourse/debate over the environment, environmental reform movements, and environmental legislation.

The narrator visits her grandparents' farm with her daughter, noting the erosions caused by both nature and development practices.

An introduction to environmentalism outlining the history of Western attitudes, ideas, movements, and showing how these relate to modern ideologies.

Urban landscapes in William Blake's poetry.

An anthology of essays on hunting by forty-one writers including Richard Nelson, Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, C. L. Rawlins, Rick Bass, Peter Matthiessen, and Terry Tempest Williams.

A lover of both wildness and hunting discusses the ecological values of being a human predator.

A British production, with some remarkable photographs but fails the research test: Philip should have known that the Chief Seattle speech he used is a fabrication; worth the price for Lee Marmon's "Laguna Eagle Dancers" photo.

A compilation of the oral tales of I.C. Eason; the stories and photos depict the Neches River bottom, the land he fought to protect from commercial interests.

Discusses Castillo's So Far From God in the context of local environmental conditions: and from the areas of shared agenda between ecofemism and environmental justice.

Compilation of popular novelist Gene Stratton Porter's (1863-1924) more obscure natural history writings. Plum attempts to revive these lively insights into the natural world as observed among the swamps of Northeast Indiana.

An encounter with a crocodile in Australia prompts some thoughts about survival and our relationship with the earth.

Explores continued uncertainty about the exact location of John Cabot's arrival to North America in 1497 and examines resulting debates about nationalism and the meaning of discovery on the continent.

Collection of 160 photographs of American songbirds and their nests, with text by ornithologist Kenn Kaufman.

Twenty-five chapters on biodiversity, cultural heritage and ecotourism in the Maya Forest represent presentations at the 1995 conference, "Conservation and Community Development in the Maya Forest of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico.".

Self-identity and relationship to place in an African-American novel.

Examines two environmental conflicts involving Chicano communities in the American Southwest: the 1965-71 pesticide campaign of the United Farm Workers and a grazing conflict involving a Hispano cooperative and mainstream environmentalists.

Role of both man-made and natural fires in shaping European settlement from the Neolithic Age to the present.

Recording the sounds of walruses in Alaska.

Essay on the environmental possibilities for human habitats.

Argues that Glasgow has to be considered a modernist writer, including her representation of nature.

Essays on the relationship between population growth and three environmental issues: global warming, land use, and air/water resource management.

Discusses the impact of abuse and misuse on rivers in the Pacific Northwest as well as strategies for their restoration.

Social ethicist synthesizes religion, ethics, and environmentalism in order to create a nourishing and sustainable earth community.

Author's experience and philosophical insights while in Wyoming's Salt River Range in 1973, based on his journal.

Using Stephanie Hoppe's "What the Cat Brought In," Italo Calvaino's "Meiosis," and David McFadden's "Hiroko Writes a Story," the writers examine the role of narrative in challenging human constructions and understanding of nature.

A reissue of the author-astronomer's "pilgrimage into the darkness and silence of the night sky in a quest of a human meaning.".

Discusses landscape and natural motifs in art and decoration in the Mediterranean, Europe Britain and North America.

Settings for 29 poems range the world with an occasional nature motif.

Collection of journals and letters by a young frontier woman.

Author proposes that the social bonding instinct evolved as part of human nature.

This Weyerhauser Environmental Book chronicles the capitalist transformation of Oregon and resultant environmental challenges.

Roberts 1956 novelization of survival after a shipwreck in Maine is accompanied by historical and literary interpretations.

"Nature" is discussed by leading theorists of culture and science. Non-fiction Philosophy Social-issues.

Traveling with friends on Highway 50 through Nevada.

Blending photography and narrative scholarship, Robertson examines the literary use of alpine excursions in the work of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Clarence King, John Muir, Mary Austin, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen.

Biography focused on Melville's private life and family as it relates to his literary career.

Article reviewing Thoreau's essay 'Walking' and providing pointers and insights for teachers to use when discussing it with students.

Explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies, and politics in a range of communities from the rainforests of Brazil to the streets of New York City.

Biographical approach to nineteenth-century novelist who used landcape as metaphor for Tasmanian nationalism.

A collection of fourteen essays written by authors of diverse nationality and background, exploring such topics as a green economy, renewable energy use, and sustainable communities.

A biography of the eighteenth-century French naturalist George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, who introduced an influential new perspective for the human understanding of nature.

Collection of narratives by women about their experiences meeting challenges of traveling and with outdoor adventures (backpacking, hunting, rock climbing) they pursued by themselves.

Rogers's latest collection of poetry, exploring human physical and spiritual relationships with the natural world.

Another installment of the Opposing Viewpoints series, this volume thoroughly explores both sides of current controversies surrounding global warming.

Stegner's seemingly contradictory views of the relationship of mankind with the natural environment are resolved by discussing his consistent and recurring theme of responsible stewardship.

Calls Burke a "critical ecologist" and suggests that his work can aid in the integration of critical theory and ecology.

Genre study of nature literature.

Collection of 18 essays exploring the social and environmental challenges and potential of the city from an ecological perspective.

Background of the Chief Seattle speech, an interview with the film professor who adapted the words for a film called Home, and three versions of the speech.

Editor of Wild Earth and program officer for biodiversity speaks of various definitions of nature as well as writers about nature.

Collection of 15 essays by Latin American, Asian, and African women "on the meaning of eco-theological issues in their own contexts -- and the implications they have for women in the first world.".

Critical reading of travel writing about Canada.

Discusses the study of archaeology as both a science and humanity, with particular focus on the designation of findings as scientific data or treasure worthy of conservation.

Examines texts of pre-Columbian, conquest, and modern Mayan culture.

A video artist speaks of the uses of television in perceiving and understanding nature.

Ecocriticism should consider the way various local communites view the environment: treatment of Thoreau, John McPhee's The Pine Barrens, Ehrlich's The Solice of Open Spaces.

By the author of Awakenings and An Anthropologist on Mars, this work consists of two tales stemming from a voyage to islands in the South Pacific: "The Island of the Colorblind" describes life through the eyes of the colorblind natives; "Cycad Island" describes his experiences as a neurologist on an island with a high percentage of neurodegenerative paralysis cases.

A collection of critical articles, book excerpts, and letters chosen to represent both sides of many current environmental issues.

Combining science, politics, travelogue, and personal insight, marine scientist, Carl Safina, tackles the overwhelming ecological threats in the world's oceans.

A posthumous collection of essays covering a number of subjects of interest to Sagan, from abortion, life on Mars and global warming to Monday Night football.

The song of the thrush with references to Whitman.

Landscape themes and figures in poetry.

Exploration of the behavior of apes.

A history of zoos and views of animals in captivity concluding that we must recognize the savagery as well as the harmony in nature.

Nazi attitudes toward the natural world, as exemplified in the work of Konrad Lorenz.

Non-fiction Plants History.

The inventor of the word "soundscape" discusses integrating music and nature.

Places the destruction of Dome Garden in New York City tomake way for public housing and the citizen reaction to this destruction within classical and Judeo-Christian traditions.

Explores the relationship between realistic settings, representation of the supernatural, and dramatic form in three plays by W. B. Yeats.

Discussion of climate change, biodiversity, and policy options.

Recommends materials for teaching Thoreau, includes essays that consider contexts, pedagogical and critical strategies, and examples of teaching opportunities beyond the classroom.

Tales and local legend are used to create this popular history of the Adirondacks.

A collection of thirty-three essays by a commentator on Northwest Public Radio's "Morning Edition," in which he is "searching for wildness in a state of mind.".

Collection of 15 essays from conservationists, community organizers, botanists, anthropologists, zoologists, Native Americans, and ecologists, that creates a multi-layered understanding of the region and its people.

Excerpts from the journal of an American abstract expressionist and landscape painter. Includes photographs of paintings.

Collection of ten essays and fifty-three photographs by noted naturalists and nature photographers expound on the awe, admiration, and wonder that mountain wilderness and high places inspire.

An environmental history of the first national park in the United States by a ranger-naturalist and park historian in Yellowstone.

Account of the life of Andrew Jackson Dowining -- horticulturist, landscape garden and prolific writer -- who was a proponent of the natural style of landscape (includes illustrations).

Using fossil and archaeological evidence, myths, and ethnohistories, Schwartz traces the evolution of dogs and their incorporation into Native American cultures.

Calls for an interaction between the ecopastoral criticism of Lawrence Buell and Glen Love, and postmodernism, especially in reference to environmental poetry.

National Park Service historian offers critical analysis and historical examination of the Service's conflicting purposes in park management: balancing the missions of preservation of species and habitat vs. promoting public access and tourism.

Follows the development of industrial hygiene and the understanding of environmental health dangers from early twentieth century United States episodes of lead and other poisonings among workers.

Treatment of environment and landscape in Rosemary Dobson's poetry.

A sociologist deconstructs the Scientific Revolution as a coherent event and shows how science emerged from various philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs.

In his address to the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Shattuck speaks of the importance of material and human nature to literature.

Analysis of ways in which animals helped model human institutions, how humans have been shaped by animals and argues that without animals in our lives we can neither be nor ever become fully human.

Collection of 17 essays by the human ecologist Shepard serve as an introduction to his thinking. Introduction by Jack Turner.

Eleven chapters from Man in the Landscape, Thinking Animals, The Sacred Paw, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, and Nature and Madness, introduced by Shepard.

Winner of the Western States Book Award for poetry, this collection of recent poems explores the problem of being human in the modern West.

A large volume of essays on the American Southwest and people who live there, providing multidisciplinary bibliography on the region.

Photography and text detailing the lives of threatened waterfowl and calling for conservation efforts on their behalf.

An attempt to move contemporary critical theory away from the city to the "social and cultural spaces on the edge."

A representative sampling of Gilmore's early nineteenth-century short fiction, which combines homespun realism with flights of frontier fantasy.

Focuses on the controversy and danger of climbing the world's tallest mountain peaks.

Explores the personalities of the two men, their relationship to each other, and their place in history as naturalists.

Account of experience teaching environmental literature in Japan: includes sylabi.

Explores the transformations wrought by cultural, political, and ecological forces on the Arctic environment and on indigenous peoples.

Environmental scholar and grandfather passes on ten stories of human understanding of the universe to younger generations.

Focusing on the legal arena this book deals with the conservation of biological diversity examining the scientific policy foundations, the current conservation regulations, the international aspects and the public relations efforts.

Encyclopedia style reference books that attempts to cover many aspects of literature of the American west.

Personal essay about human fascination with animal forms.

A discussion of the human impact on the atmosphere which offers the lay reader an understanding of such issues as global warming, acid rain, and air pollution.

Case studies of two families on small farms in Michigan.

A review of conceptions of nature in western thought and metaphoric American literature, especially Burroughs and Muir.

Presents essays on extinction, endangered species, and various related policy questions.

Stunning photographs, many oversized, and prose provide an intimate armchair experience of the Grand Canyon.

A collection of conversations with Stegner on his life, writings, academic career, environmentalism, and the West.

A collection of 21 essays that are testimonies to Stegner, both the public figure and the private man, written by friends, colleagues, and others who knew and admired him and his work of writing about and advocating for the environment. Includes photographs from throughout his life. Non-fiction Literary-criticism Memoirs.

Rachel Stein examines the works of Emily Dickinson, Zora Neal Hurston, Alice Walker and Leslie Marmon Silko within the context of ecofeminist theory suggesting that these authors metaphorically revise concepts of nature, culture and race.

A biologist's investigation and personal narrative of links between cancer and contamination of the earth, air, and water.

An interdisciplinary study of Georgia's low country that describes and analyzes the connection between labor and landscape.

An anthology containing essays by 26 writers who celebrate "the physical and spiritual dimensions of their own home ground."

Traces roots of extremism in rural grassroots organizations from colonial America to the present.

A study of the connection between Protestantism, capitalism, and American ideas about nature, discussing important figures including Franklin, Jefferson, Leopold, Dillard, and Foreman.

Article discussing how the work of E.F. Forster reflects his attitudes toward the impact of industrialization and progress on nature and the environment.

A multidisciplinary study of ecofeminism, exploring it "as an oppositional political discourse and set of practices imbedded in particular historical, material, and political contexts."

Article compares setting described in "Big Two-Hearted River" with actual and historical setting (Seney, on upper peninsula of Michigan). Discusses symbolism of some of the elements of the setting and actions in the story.

Native American stories, songs, oratory, and prayers from all parts of North America, with a focus on translation. Footnotes, bibliography, index.

Analyzes opposition to the environmental movement and connects it to Western protests against federal land policies.

Investigation of how and why biologists promote biodiversity in society, based in part on interviews with 23 scientists involved in this struggle.

Follows the path of a teacher as he searches for a place in which to combine his love of the natural world with his desire to share what he has learned through the media of literature and environmental studies.

Contents include list of all Rawling's writings and an appendix of major books written about Rawlings.

Detailed account of experience with ecofeminst, dialogical approach to introductory literature classroom.

Essays on twenty years of back-to-the-land sustainable living in Maine.

A rhetorical examination of the boundaries of scientific disciplines, arguing that such "demarcations" are socially constructed, and thus susceptible to alteration via community influence.

Revisionist study highlights Thoreau as a political theorist and social critic by analyzing not only his political essays, but his nature writing as well.

Multidisciplinary anthology exploring connections between science, language, and ethics, including a section on the nuclear industry.

A literary study of "various imaginative representations of the desert in the United States," examining desert magazines and works by writers including Powell, Van Dyke, Austin, and Silko.

Two famous naturalists explore interactions among animals, plants, soil, and water on Sapelo Island in Georgia.

Explores the complexities and paradoxes characterizing Emerson's and Thoreau's views of America's market economy.

The author investigates unforseen consequences of technological advances in computing, medicine, sports, and environmental control methods.

An "introduction to the history of the Adirondacks," the book unfolds the region's contested terrain and describes conflicts between exploitation and preservation. Includes many illustrations from the collection of the Adirondack Museum.

Anthropology and environmentalism in John Milton's Paradise Lost.

The author creates "home" in midlife by moving to a cabin in the Vermont woods and adopting a baby girl from China.

Examines the roles of geographers and legal scholars in resolving environmental conflicts.

Essays grouped into three sections -- the uses of diversity, on being a scientist and the future of evolution -- which explore science as a human endeavor (includes illustrations).

Twenty-eight essays that speculate on culture, environment, and interactions between human lives and place in western Canada.

Essays by Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Matthew Fox, Thich Nhat Hanh, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Thomas Moore, Terry Tempest Williams, and others.

Comprehensive discussion of human activity in the region from early inhabitants through the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam; more precisely, a series of histories, each dedicated to a different aspect of human engagement with the land: prehistory, exploration, exploitation, scientific investigation, and recreation.

Collection shows changes in humans' experience and conceptions of nature (including mythical, religious, poetic, philosophical, and scientific) through writing samples representing diverse cultures and genres to the end of the nineteenth century.

A collection of 101 three-page essays on questions preoccupying current research in the sciences.

A charming account of events and relationships on a tree farm in Minnesota, originally published in 1977.

A collection of 21 short writings by various authors on the importance of preserving Utah wilderness, originally presented to the US Congress.

Nature compared to civilization in an eighteenth-century English poem.

"Women's paths to personal wholeness and self-healing are explored through an eco-feminist, reader-response analysis of fictional narratives" including Mary Austin, Harriette Arnow, Ellen Galford, Ibis Gomez-Vega, and Sally Carrighar.

An illustrated collection of work by a diverse selection of Western poets, commemorating Ahsahta Press's twentieth anniversary.

Folk belief systems and science of Ontario and Canada's Cree Indians.

Essays discussing "the authority of wild nature," along with "the authority of its presence in our experience, and, hence, in the structure of our lives.".

Retracing Muir's path described in My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), the authors analyze and apply Muir's philosophy to present problems in park management.

Discusses the life-long influence of Blake on Merton's writing.

Critical, poststructural interrogation of the problem of essentialism in deep ecology in the light of a contemporary cultural theory, examining the foundations and future of deep ecology and its conception of the human subject.

Articulating a sense of place.

Account of experience teaching discourse theory and environmental literature in a doctoral seminar: includes syllabus.

Inspirational autobiography of blind paleontologist and environmentalist.

Reference work on the folklore of plants, especially in Britain.

Vileisis traces the history of wetlands examining changing attitudes and current legal and political controversies.

Explorations of place, identity, and experience.

Illustrated guide to the folklore and medicinal properties of leaves of trees growing in America.

Interdisciplinary collection, grouped thematically, intended for the classroom (rural sociology, nature writing, environmental ethics) and the non-academic activist community.

An American field biologist studying leopards in the African rain forest finds himself entangled in political corruption.

Prose treatment of nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson compared to that of Thomas Carlyle and Resartus Sartor.

Legends of saints, magic and animals.

Compares the treatment of nature in Joan Lindsay's novel to the film adaptation.

Treatment of Native-Americans and nature in Kevin Costner's film, Dances with Wolves.

Central America as a landbridge of crucial significance to processes of evolution on both continents.

Adventure and exploration on Idaho's Salmon River (River of No Return).

Review of newly available translations of French philosopher of science Michel Serres.

Argues that government cannot determine safe levels of exposure to toxic substances, and suggests reforms to environmental laws to protect children from these substances.

A collection of 16 essays by prominent ecofeminists from philosophy, literary studies, and activism on the connections between feminism and environmentalism.

Emphasizes the idea that hunting grounds are national common grounds.

Edmund Spenser's comparison of nymph and mother nature in The Faerie Queene and Mutabilitie Cantos.

Conference papers generated by The North American Native Workshop on Environmental Justice, held 16 March to 19 March 1995 at the campus of the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, CO.

Replication of photographs taken during a feasibility study for a water-level railroad through the canyons of the Colorado River; collected to document the frequency of debris flows into the Colorado River from side canyons; includes sidebar essays on history, ecology, and other subjects.

The book covers conservation, conservation planning, and projects of the Nature Conservancy to protect endangered natural resources.

Social-psychological investigation of processes by which subjects interpret natural environments, including a chapter on lawns, weeds, and status.

Explores early praise for his poetry and inclusion in a college anthology.

Reprint of Wellek's 1949 article on the problems and possibilities of periodization.

Argues that "attention to gender" in American literature explains the "puzzling ambivalence in American literary responses to landscape and nature.".

Essays connect contemporary ideology with Greek philosophers.

Non-fiction Literary-criticism History.

Darwin's contributions to science discussed in lay terms.

Non-fiction Literary-criticism.

An evolutionary biologist explains how well humans have evolved to carry out the tasks of life.

Aime Cesaire's A Tempest creates "an interdependence of place and being" which provides a model for human interactions with each other and the environment.

Preeminent sociobiologist explores social organization of animals to elucidate human behavior.

Nature, Organicism, and Electromagnetism in Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A collection of works by such writers as: William Bartram, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Aldo Leopold, Peter Matthiessen, all considering aspects of America's wetlands.

In this latest work, Wilson compiles a series of essays in an attempt to explore the divergent evolution of human and non-human nature.

Nature in the prose of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Believing environmentalism compatible with capitalism, a philanthropist reshapes public policy.

An examination of human relationships with nature in the present age when, despite increasing environmental awareness, we still "approach pests as organisms to control rather than manage.".

Examines Faulkner's rendering of human relations with the environment in the novel.

Treatment of wilderness in British and Irish literatures.

Discusses how Chaucer portrays the conflict between nature and society in the urban context of London.

Non-fiction Travel Memoirs.

Multidisciplinary anthology of essays, including literary criticism, treating the diversity and dynamism of western U.S. identities.

Lightweight approach to showing the natural world of American Indians; contains photos paired with excerpts, including portions of the now-famously bogus Chief Seattle speech.

A collection of 16 essays that remap global and local cartographies of culture as the result of deterritorialization, translocality, globalization, postcolonial, postnational, and transnational redefinitions of space.

For use by practitioners and decision makers, an assessment of 105 sites in aggregate along with summary tables arranged by factors such as outcomes, size and age, also more detailed descriptions of the 105 sites followed by a directory of 619 ecosystem management projects.

Postmodern satire set in contemporary and future Brazil.

Shawnee Indian folk narrative and legend as it relates to spirituality, motherhood, and nature.

An account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, featuring the difficulties faced by the region's inhabitants in the face of increasing industrialization.

Argues that A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers can be read as an analysis of the transformation of New England's landscape, rather than as a pastoral elegy for his brother.

Romanticism and the treatment of nature in Dorothy Wordsworth's prose.

Nature writing with a desert setting.

Presentation of major components of the radical ecological movement (deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism) and attempt to show how radical ecology fits in late twentieth century culture.

Introduces nontechnical readers to scientific issues of concern with respect to the environment. Covers falsehoods and disinformation used by environmental foes.

Reading the pre-Socratics as environmental philosophers by way of the poems of Robert Bringhurst.

Another exploration of natural history from this John Burroughs Medal winner, this one an amalgamation of several trips through the Grand Canyon and among its side canyons; a roughly seasonal investigation of the dynamics of water, rock, plants, animals, and humans in vivid, enthusiastic prose.

The writer and activist offers spiritual and environmental essays on California desert regions, supplemented with full-color photographs by Jeff Garton.