[PDF] Words From The Land eBook

Author : Stephen Trimble
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780874172645

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"Words From the Land spans the full range of the contemporary nature writing genre. In this expanded edition, Stephen Trimble adds five writers to the fifteen included in the original edition, including selections both from well-known masters and from vital new writers who focus on our relationship with the earth. A new preface brings his critical commentary up to date. In his fascinating introduction, and in biographical sketches of each contributor, Trimble illuminates the practice and spirit of this work, the fruit of 'the naturalist's trance'. Trimble explores how the writers learn their profession, how they meet day-by-day challenges, and how they feel about their craft. The interaction between the essays and the introduction provides an unusual perspective on these writers who connect the worlds of story and landscape."--Publisher's description.

Author : John William Sherry
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826322814

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Because of his friendship with the Jacksons, Sherry was on the scene during the aftermath of the mysterious death of Leroy Jackson in 1993. His vivid account of the resulting journalistic feeding frenzy and heightened conflict on the reservation adds an unusual dimension to this intimate and unpretentious story.

Author : Eloise Greenfield
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781484471425

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A picture book with illustrations made of sewn-fabric collages offers a collection of twenty-one inspirational poems, such as "Nathaniel's Rap" and "Twister" from the award-winning author of African Dream.

Author : William D. Barney
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780929398648

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If you enjoyed books like A Sand County Almanac or A Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, you’ll love Words from a Wide Land. Barney brings insights of people and places, natural phenomena, birds, animals, insects, and other things he has encountered in many years of living and traveling. In these entries (a year’s worth, though not in chronological order by year), can be found humor, romance, delight, philosophy, even terror. He has measured the life about him with a flair, which at times bursts into poetry. From the book: “September 6, 1977. The migration of birds resembles Pickett’s Charge. Thousands are lost in frontal collisions with skyscrapers, are picked off by rough predators, buffeted by wind and storm. But they keep coming on, advancing, year after year, as if there were no Cemetery Ridge.” May 12, 1967. The Swainson thrush has been fluting his little strangled bugle call from the red mulberry tree now several days. It is much like the wood thrush's call in quality, but reduced in an echo chamber, to a mere whisper. Still, it is an unmistakable signature of one week in May, which I have hardly heard at any other time.”

Author : Michigan. Legislature. Senate
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN :

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Includes extra sessions.

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300045871

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V.1 the war of the words. V.2 sexchanges.

Author : Glenn A. Albrecht
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1501715240

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As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century. Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene. With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.