Bibliographies

Nature Writing Poll

Conducted by W. Scott Olsen

You get to teach this dream course called Environmental Literature.
You get to teach ten texts.
You get to choose the breadth of the definition.
What would you chose?

Poll Results (6 March 1996)

These titles received multiple votes, they are in ranked order.

Sand County Almanac--Leopold
Refuge--Williams
Land of Little Rain--Austin
Desert Solitaire--Abbey
Ceremony--Silko
Walden--Thoreau
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek--Dillard
Women and Nature--Griffin
Silent Spring--Carson
Practice of the Wild--Snyder
Arctic Dreams--Lopez
The Solace of Open Spaces--Ehrlich

Below, each title received one vote.  No ranking.

Dakota--Norris
Turtle Island--Snyder
Islands, the Universe, Home--Ehrlich
The River Why--Duncan
Teaching a Stone to Talk--Dillard
The Living--Dillard
An Unspoken Hunger--Williams
Mary Oliver's poetry
Joy Harjo's poetry
David Quammen's essays
Surfacing--Atwood
Almanac of the Dead--Silko
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan--Huxley
Octopus--Norris
Vineland--Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow--Pynchon
Grapes of Wrath--Steinbeck
Maine Woods--Thoreau
"Walking"--Thoreau
"Wild Apples"--Thoreau
Moby Dick--Melville
Nature--Emerson
Dickinson's poetry
Whitman's poetry
Bishop's poetry
Wilderness World of John Muir--Muir
Mountains of California--Muir
High Sierras--Muir
The Age of Missing Information--McKibben
Honour the Sun--Slipperjack
Selections from Shakespeare's history plays
Country of the Pointed Firs and other stories--Jewett
Axe Handles--Snyder
The Four Cornered Falcon--Saner
Desierto--Bowden
Who Owns the West--Kittredge
Travels--Bartram
Man Who Walked--Fletcher
River Runs Through It--McClain
Under the Sea Wind--Carson
Home Economics--Berry
The Immense Journey--Eisley
The Fifth Sacred Thing--Starhawk
Lives of a Cell--Thomas
The Dispossessed--LeGuin
Buffalo Gals and other Animal Presences--LeGuin
Imaginary Maps--Devi
Koyaanisquatsi (film)--Reggio (director)
Ectopia--Callenbach
This Incomperable Lande--Lyon
Ecofiction--Stadler, ed.
Mining the Oort--Pohl
A Whale for the Killing--Mowatt
The Monkey Wrench Gang--Abbey