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Holdfast : At Home in the Natural World /

Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts--the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales--she examines our connections to our own...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Kathleen Dean
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2013
Edición:1st Oregon State University Press ed.
Colección:Northwest reprints.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Connection -- The testimony of the marsh -- Holdfast -- Howling with strangers -- A field guide to western birds -- The thing about dogs -- Field notes for an aesthetic of storms -- The western singing fish -- Separation -- The song of the canyon wren -- The Prometheus moth -- Traveling the logging road, coast range -- Cast your frog on the water -- Memory (the boathouse) -- Baking bread with my daughter -- Pale morning dun (ephemerella infrequens) -- Connection -- On being afraid of bears -- Notes from the pig-barn path -- The man with a stump where his head should be -- The only place like this -- Canoeing on the line of a song -- Incoming tide -- Dead reckoning -- Afterword. 
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