Off the beaten path : stories of place
- Title
- Off the beaten path : stories of place / edited by Joseph Barbato and Lisa Weinerman Horak ; introduction by Barbara Kingsolver.
- Published by
- New York : North Point Press, 1998.
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- Description
- 262 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Readers are taken on a literary journey through wild and wonderful landscapes in this new collection, which focuses on conservation in an unusual way - by exploring the importance of place through the short story. Long dedicated to the preservation of wild places, The Nature Conservancy asked writers to visit one of its preserves or write from past experience outdoors, allowing a place to trigger their imagination and make a story possible.
- Several authors were inspired by the landscapes of their youth (Jill McCorkle's North Carolina woods, Richard Bausch's Blue Ridge Mountains), while others, like Eric Lustbader, who trekked to Alaska, explored territory unfamiliar to them."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- Preface / John C. Sawhill -- Introduction / Barbara Kingsolver -- Knowing Our Place -- The Chauffeur / Howard Norman -- The Snipe Hunt / Jill McCorkle -- A Blackfoot River Fable / David James Duncan -- Pond Time / Gretel Ehrlich -- Glass Meadow / Richard Bausch -- Botanizing Upon the Mountain: Two Stories / Lee Smith -- Hush / Eric Lustbader -- Two Dogs at Rowena / Barry Lopez -- The Half-Skinned Steer / Annie Proulx -- Fiber / Rick Bass -- Early Lessons / Rita Mae Brown -- Mink River / Larry Watson -- Victor / Julia Alvarez.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- "The Nature Conservancy"--Spine.