In earshot of water [[electronic resource] ] : notes from the Columbia Plateau / / by Paul Lindholdt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789808703321
• Autore: Lindholdt Paul J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-58729-985-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Collana: Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction
• Disciplina: 979.5
• Soggetti: Natural history - Northwest, Pacific; Human ecology - Northwest, Pacific; Northwest, Pacific Description and travel; Northwest, Pacific Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; High Country; Walker Creek; Black Bear on Gold Hill; In the Shadow of the Government's Blind Eye; Three Coyotes; The Way to Open; Magpie in the Window; Genius Loci; Subliming the System; On Attention; Under the Sign of Aries; The Silver Valley; Wrangling with Rodeo; Technologies of Doubt; Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Whether the subject is the plants that grow there, the animals that live there, the rivers that run there, or the people he has known there, Paul Lindholdt's In Earshot of Water illuminates the Pacific Northwest in vivid detail. Lindholdt writes with the precision of a naturalist, the critical eye of an ecologist, the affection of an apologist, and the self-revelation and self-awareness of a personal essayist in the manner of Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, Derrick Jensen, John McPhee, Robert Michael Pyle, and Kathleen Dean Moore. Exploring b