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Natural State : a Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing.
This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers-be they naturalists or armchair explorers-will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works spa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkerley :
University of California Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; NATURAL STATE; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Introduction; THE CREATION; Cahto Myth: The Creation; Darryl Babe Wilson: Grampa Ramsey and the Great Canyon; THE MOUNTAINS; Joaquin Miller: An Elk Hunt; Joseph LeConte: Ramblings in Yosemite; Mark Twain: Lake Tahoe; Jack K.erouac: Climbing Matterhorn Peak; Harold Gilliam: A Mount for All Seasons; Ann Zwinger: Trumpets of Light; David Rains Wallace: The Fourth Dimension; Daniel Duane: Climbing Half Dome; THE HILLS AND VALLEYS; William H. Brewer: Into the Valley; Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sea Fogs; Jack London: On Sonoma Mountain
- John Steinbeck: FlightM. F.K Fisher: Spirits of the Valley; Barry Lopez: A Reflection on White Geese; David Darlington: In Condor Country; David Mas Masumoto: Winter's Fog; Hildegarde Flanner: A Vanishing Land; Wallace Stegner: Remnants; THE DESERT; John Daniel: Desert Walking; Edward Abbey: Death Valley; Susan Zwinger: Overlooking Carrizo Gorge; Gary Paul Nabhan: The Palms in Our Hands; THE COAST; J. Smeaton Chase: Gaviota Coast Trails; Lawrence Clark Powell: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea; Henry Miller: BigSu; T.H. Watkins: The Sundown Sea; Russell Chatham: A Certain Moment
- Kem Nunn: Tapping the SourceGretel Ehrlich: Santa Rosa; John McKinney: Lost Coast; EARTH, WIND, RAIN, AND FIRE; James D. Houston: Continental Drift; John McPhee: The San Andreas Discrepancy; John Muir: A Wind-Storm in the Forest; Joan Didion: The Santa Ana; Mary Austin: Nurslings of the Sky; Jane Hollister Wheelwright: The Storm; Margaret Millar: After the Fire; Afterword: Coming into the Watershed: Gary Snyder; Further Reading; Acknowledgments