A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North AmericaMark Tredinnick U of Nebraska Press, 2003 M01 1 - 268 páginas A Place on Earth is an anthology of nature writing, some of it classic, some of it new, from Australia and North America. It brings together essays by many of the finest nature writers of our time on both continents, and it introduces some rich new voices to this literature of place. Each essay brings to life a place that is special?sacred, even?to its author. This is a book of places?wild, lived in, grazed, fished in, explored, lost, and remembered. It is a lyric essay, in twenty-six voices, about what it means to live well on the land. It is a book of miraculous, ordinary places and of prose in which those places are alive. Here you will find desert and plateau, river and ice, city and farm, forest and grassland, man and woman, horse and bear, coyote and salmon, lyrebird and eagle, wind and rain, outback and seashore, sandstone and granite, she-oak and cottonwood, highland and lowland, harbor and wetland, ancient and modern, earth and sky, birth and death?just a few of the many compass points, the contour lines, the latitudes and longitudes of home. |
Contenido
About the contributors | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 17 |
An Introduction | 25 |
The Unconformities of Place and Self | 55 |
CHARMIAN CLIFT | 65 |
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Términos y frases comunes
animals Australia Barry Lopez beach bear birds blue boat body breath brown bear bush called Canberra Capital Hill cliffs clouds cold coyote creek culture dark David Quammen deep deer dreaming earth ecological edge essays eyes fall feel feet fire fish forest garden Gardiners Island Gary Snyder grass ground human imagination Island James Galvin land landscape language Laurie Kutchins learned light listening literature live looking Lyle lyrebird meadow miles mountain nature writing never night ocean PATRICE NEWELL Peter Matthiessen pine plants plateau Prospero rain ridge river rock rogainers runs salmon sand sandstone sense shape snow song species spring story summer Sydney Terry Tempest Williams things Tim Winton trees trout turned unconformity valley voice walked Warner watch weather wild wind winter wood words