Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Shore, William H.

Description

1. xii, 298 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Nature study
2. Natural history
3. Human ecology

Contents

1. Preface / Al Gore -- Introduction / William H. Shore -- A carefully controlled experiment / Bill McKibben -- Natural disasters / Natalie Angier -- The explorer's journey : a report from the frontier / David G. Campbell -- The emus / Sy Montgomery -- A natural history of the plastic pink flamingo / Jennifer Price -- California condors / Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager -- Gujarat and Rajasthan / Peter Matthiessen -- Tapir's gourds and smelly toads : life in a little-known rain forest / David Rains Wallace -- The sweet smell of success / Thomas Eisner -- Millipide summers, silurian nights / Sue Hubbell -- Summer / Diane Ackerman -- Invitation to a rainy day / Janet Lembke -- The nature of nature / David E. Fisher -- Human nature / Peter J. Ferrato -- Of whales and men / Victor Perera -- Saving the whales / Robert Finch -- The Pacific coast of California / John A. Murray -- Logging / Ted Kerasote -- The human chauvinist within / Lawrence E. Joseph -- The creative spirit in art and literature / John Haines -- The color of a bird's egg / Bernd Heinrich -- Electron-microscopy : a closer look at nature / Gregory S. Paulson and Christine Davitt -- The mind's eye : from a novel / Edward Hoagland -- Drunk on honey : seeing ourselves in nature / Chet Raymo -- Kiss and tell / Judith Stone -- A gathering of birds / Karen Pryor -- Swims with frogs / Roger B. Swain -- Voyageurs / Scott Russell Sanders -- Empty at the heart of the world / Christopher Shaw.

Call number

1. JFE 95-6295

Title

1. The Nature of nature : new essays from America's finest writers on nature / edited by William H. Shore.

Imprint

1. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Added author

1. Shore, William H.

LCCN

1. 94003123

ISBN

1. 0151000808 : $24.95 ($34.95 Can.)

Research call number

1. JFE 95-6295