American nature writing, 1995
By: selected by John A. Murray
Contributors: Sierra Club
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780871564382
Notes: "An annual collection of new and distinguished voices in contemporary nature writing"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: September on the Kenai  -- by John A. Murray; title: At the end of Tibet  -- Peter Matthiessen; title: So shall we reap  -- Jane Smiley; title: Offshore: a journey to the Weddell Sea  -- Barry Lopez; title: The erotic landscape  -- Terry Tempest Williams; title: Shadows and vistas  -- John Haines; title: Flying to Vietnam  -- Susan Brownmiller; title: The crowded desert islands  -- David Rains Wallace; title: Poems  -- Adele Ne Jame; title: Walking point in white bear country  -- Doug Peacock; title: Native store -- Carolyn Kremers.; title: Creatures of the dictator  -- Rick Bass; title: Animal allies  -- Brenda Peterson; title: Scotland  -- John Gierarch; title: Octopus's garden  -- Cindy Van Dover; title: Blood, hair, and the ground tore up  -- David Petersen; title: Learning to breathe  -- Clarice Dickess; title: The gift of a wolf  -- Rick McIntyre; title: Poem  -- Lyn Buckley; title: The winged whales  -- Gerard Gormley; title: Woods work  -- Alison Deming; title: Cuttings  -- John Daniel; title: Two lakes  -- Nancy Lord; title: The valley of the crane -- Jim Miller.; title: Poems  -- Peggy Shumaker; title: Biodiversity threatened  -- Edward O. Wilson; title: The burden of the beach -- Eva Saulitis.