Teaching a stone to talk
Subtitle: expeditions and encounters
By: Annie Dillard
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780060915414
Subjects: Life; Nature
Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer shares her sharply observed, keenly felt encounters with the natural world--in landscapes of Eastern woods and farmlands, the Pacific Northwest coast, and tropical islands and rivers.
Table of contents: title: Total eclipse; title: The expedition to the Pole; title: Living like weasels; title: In the jungle; title: The deer at Providencia; title: Teaching a stone to talk; title: On a hill far away; title: Lenses; title: Life on the rocks : the Galápagos; title: A field of science; title: God in the doorway; title: Mirages; title: Sojourner; title: Acres and eights.