Encompassing nature
Subtitle: a sourcebook
By: edited by Robert M. Torrance
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1224
ISBN-13: 9781887178433
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Folklore; Nature; Natural History; Nature/Ecology; Nature / Field Guide Books; Essays; General; Literary collections; Mythology
First sentence: In the absence of writing, and for the most part of spoken languages understood outside their immediate regions, the richly complex traditions of tribal cultures remained largely unknown to others, except as bizarre curiosities of "savage," until the last two centuries, when both dedicated amateurs and trained ethnographers have labored to understand and make them known.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.