02793nam 2200613Ia 450 991045644100332120200520144314.01-58729-181-9(CKB)111004365705614(EBL)1035395(SSID)ssj0000156730(PQKBManifestationID)11158333(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156730(PQKBWorkID)10131327(PQKB)10861259(MiAaPQ)EBC1035395(OCoLC)44964814(MdBmJHUP)muse24368(Au-PeEL)EBL1035395(CaPaEBR)ebr10608627(OCoLC)854968974(EXLCZ)9911100436570561419920212d1992 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFor love of the world[electronic resource] essays on nature writers /Sherman PaulIowa City University of Iowa Pressc19921 online resource (276 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-383-7 0-87745-396-9 Contents; Preface; Thoreau; Thinking with Thoreau; From Walden Out; Three Reviews; Leopold; The Husbandry of the Wild; Aldo Leopold's Counter-Friction; Lopez; Making the Turn: Rereading Barry Lopez; Beston; Coming Home to the World: Another Journal for Henry Beston; Nelson; The Education of a Hunter: Reading Richard Nelson; A Letter from Richard Nelson; Eiseley; Back and Down: Loren Eiseley's Immense Journey; Muir; Muir's Self-AuthorizingsAlong 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 thAmerican literatureHistory and criticismNatural historyUnited StatesHistoriographyNature in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Natural historyHistoriography.Nature in literature.810.9810.9/36810.936Paul Sherman701040MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456441003321For love of the world2291255UNINA