Crossing Open Ground

Crossing Open Ground PDF Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679721835
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
In Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves the same invigorating spell as in his National Book Award-winning classic Arctic Dreams. Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures. Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a re-enchantment with the world that is vital to our sense of place, our well-being . . . our very survival.

Crossing Open Ground

Crossing Open Ground PDF Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480409170
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
DIVDIVDIVNational Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays/divDIV In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he’s traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the American Southwest, recalling the devastating beaching of forty-one sperm whales along the Oregon coast or reveling in the remarkable migrations of wild geese, Lopez shows readers the world’s special places, its remarkable people, and stunning natural events. He thoughtfully explores humankind’s place in this vast natural scheme, and opens our eyes to its breathtaking complexity./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div/div/div

Crossing Open Ground

Crossing Open Ground PDF Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780679723738
Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Earthly Words

Earthly Words PDF Author: John R. Cooley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065370
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today.

Hewing to Experience

Hewing to Experience PDF Author: Sherman Paul
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587291800
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
". . . The celebration of a point of view that Paul is uniquely equipped to communicate. . . . It provides an excellent treatment of the development and practice of a powerful poetic force in modern poetry today, showing the theoretic coherence of Emerson, Whitman, Pound, Williams, and particularly, Olson, as originators and practitioners of 'open' forms." --Thomas Merrill"This book is going to be of value to a number of different readers. For teachers and writers it is a resource and a stimulus for participating in an open poetics. On a utilitarian level it will help to respond to the recent

Conservation of Dragonflies

Conservation of Dragonflies PDF Author: Michael J. Samways
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 178924837X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 555

Book Description
Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history. They are iconic and tell us much about the environments in which we and they live. Their conservation is an important part of biodiversity conservation. One modern dragonfly species is listed as extinct, with many others currently threatened. It is now essential to increase conservation efforts towards saving these threatened species, with strategies now available for doing this. Recovery of dragonfly populations goes hand in hand with improvements to both freshwater conditions and bank vegetation quality. In contrast, some other dragonfly species have benefitted greatly from human transformation of the landscape, with artificial ponds in particular, increasing the population levels of many species. In turn, climate change is seeing many geographical range shifts. Conservation of Dragonflies: Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation is for naturalists, citizen scientists, entomologists and conservation scientists, as well as practitioners and policy makers around the world.

For Love of the World

For Love of the World PDF Author: Sherman Paul
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587291819
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Along with poets, philosophers, and deep ecologists, nature writers—who may be something of all three—address the world alienation of Western civilization. By example as well as with words, they teach us to turn from the self to the world, from ego to ecos.In these deeply felt meditative essays, Sherman Paul contemplates the cosmological homecoming of nature writers who show us how to reenter the world, participate in it, and recover respect for it. In For Love of the World Sherman Paul considers Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, major writers in the American tradition of nature writing; Henry Beston and Loren Eiseley, writers not yet so canonical; and Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez, our estimable contemporaries. Paul's meditative mode follows the practice of naturalists who enter the field, come into the open, and relate their immediate experiences. In the most primary and direct way, his essays belong to our moment in history when nothing is more essential than our reattachment to earthly existence. They will reawaken our love of the world—the necessary eros of ecos—and our wonder at and gratitude for being.
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