02539nam 2200589Ia 450 991077759060332120230617042244.01-58729-442-7(CKB)1000000000447531(EBL)837037(OCoLC)56109472(SSID)ssj0000153791(PQKBManifestationID)11179299(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153791(PQKBWorkID)10405421(PQKB)10935807(MiAaPQ)EBC837037(MdBmJHUP)muse12491(Au-PeEL)EBL837037(CaPaEBR)ebr10354501(EXLCZ)99100000000044753120030327d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFauna and flora, earth and sky[electronic resource] brushes with nature's wisdom /Trudy DittmarIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20031 online resource (237 p.)Sightline booksDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-872-3 Acknowledgments; Prologue; Pronghorn; Cows, Arrogance, the Natures of Things; The Porcupine's Old Clothes; Moose; Going to Rainbow; Paedomorph Pools and Other Blighted Bounties; Cache; Still Point; Wolf Show, Truman, Ersatz Moon; Men and the Blue Lights of Nature""[Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky] is, in fact, the most intelligent, thoughtful, original, challenging, and highly entertaining work of nature writing since Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams. . . . It is her broad scope of contemplation, combined with her fiercely beautiful and detailed renderings of passion, natural and human, that give Trudy Dittmar's first but fully mature book its remarkable originality and considerable power."" --Robert Finch,Los Angeles Times Book Review""Honest self-scrutiny is irresistible, especially when told with a knack for diction of place, as this author demonstrates oSightline books.Natural historyWest (U.S.)Mountain animalsWest (U.S.)Human ecologyNatural historyMountain animalsHuman ecology.508.78818.6Dittmar Trudy1944-1499184MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777590603321Fauna and flora, earth and sky3725046UNINA