The Nature of nature
Subtitle: new essays from America's finest writers on nature
By: edited by William H. Shore.
Contributors: Shore, William H.
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Series: Harvest book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Natural history.; Human ecology.; Nature study.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Al Gore; title: Introduction / William H. Shore; title: A carefully controlled experiment / Bill McKibben; title: Natural disasters / Natalie Angier; title: The explorer's journey : a report from the frontier / David G. Campbell; title: The emus / Sy Montgomery; title: A natural history of the plastic pink flamingo / Jennifer Price; title: California condors / Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager; title: Gujarat and Rajasthan / Peter Matthiessen; title: Tapir's gourds and smelly toads : life in a little-known rain forest / David Rains Wallace; title: The sweet smell of success / Thomas Eisner; title: Millipide summers, silurian nights / Sue Hubbell; title: Summer / Diane Ackerman; title: Invitation to a rainy day / Janet Lembke; title: The nature of nature / David E. Fisher; title: Human nature / Peter J. Ferrato; title: Of whales and men / Victor Perera; title: Saving the whales / Robert Finch; title: The Pacific coast of California / John A. Murray; title: Logging / Ted Kerasote; title: The human chauvinist within / Lawrence E. Joseph; title: The creative spirit in art and literature / John Haines; title: The color of a bird's egg / Bernd Heinrich; title: Electron-microscopy : a closer look at nature / Gregory S. Paulson and Christine Davitt; title: The mind's eye : from a novel / Edward Hoagland; title: Drunk on honey : seeing ourselves in nature / Chet Raymo; title: Kiss and tell / Judith Stone; title: A gathering of birds / Karen Pryor; title: Swims with frogs / Roger B. Swain; title: Voyageurs / Scott Russell Sanders; title: Empty at the heart of the world / Christopher Shaw.