Fauna and flora, earth and sky : brushes with nature's wisdom / / Trudy Dittmar
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| Autore: |
Dittmar Trudy <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Fauna and flora, earth and sky : brushes with nature's wisdom / / Trudy Dittmar
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 508.78 |
| 818.6 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Natural history - West (U.S.) |
| Mountain animals - West (U.S.) | |
| Human ecology | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""[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 o |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fauna and flora, earth and sky |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-442-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819905903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Sightline books.