In earshot of water [[electronic resource] ] : notes from the Columbia Plateau / / by Paul Lindholdt
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| Autore: |
Lindholdt Paul J
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| Titolo: |
In earshot of water [[electronic resource] ] : notes from the Columbia Plateau / / by Paul Lindholdt
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 979.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Natural history - Northwest, Pacific |
| Human ecology - Northwest, Pacific | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Northwest, Pacific Description and travel |
| Northwest, Pacific Biography | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In earshot of water |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-985-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789808703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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