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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Moore, Kathleen Dean
Collectivité auteur: Project Muse
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2013
Édition:1st Oregon State University Press ed.
Collection:Northwest reprints.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Moore, Kathleen Dean.
Human ecology.
Philosophy of nature.
Nature > Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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