1990-1993 ASLE Bibliography
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Editors: Zita Ingham and Ron Steffens,
Unity College of Maine , Unity, Maine, 1995.
Abbott, Carl
The Metropolitan Frontier
Editor Gerald D. Nash
U of Arizona P: Tucson, AZ, 1993.
Series: The Modern American West
"First comprehensive overview of urban growth" in the West.Ackerman, Diane
A Natural History of the Senses
Random House: New York, 1990. Ackerman, Diane
The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodiles and Whales
Random House: New York, 1992. Adams, Carol J.
Ecofeminism and the Sacred
Orbis Books: Maryknoll, NY, 1992. Adams, Carol J.
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Continuum: New York, 1990.
This book analyzes "the patriarchal texts of meat" (14), provides "a feminist history of vegetarianism" (15), and explores the relationship between feminism and animal rights theory. Adams, Noah
Saint Croix Notes: River Mornings, Radio Nights
Norton: New York, 1990.
Account of year in Minnesota and Wisconsin and the rhythms of small-town life as they relate to the seasons and the natural world.Addison, Jeanne
The Shakespearean Wild: Geography, Genus, and Gender
U of Nebraska P: Lincoln, 1991. Aesenberg, Nadya
We Animals: Poems of Our World
Sierra Club: San Francisco, 1990. Albanese, Catherine L.
Nature Religion in America: from the Algonkian Indians to the New Age
Editor Martin E. Marty
U of Chicago P: Chicago and London, 1990.
Series: Chicago History of American Religion Series
Traces the history of American nature religion, discussing Native religions, "republican" religion, transcendentalism, nineteenth century physical religion, and twentieth century manifestations. Bibliographical essay.Alcock, John
Sonoran Desert Summer
U of Arizona P: Tucson, AZ, 1990.
"Record of natural observation and conceptual ecology."Alcock, John
The masked Bobwhite Rides Again
U of Arizona P: Tucson, AZ, 1993.
"Elegantly chronicles not only the changes wrought on the desert by people, but also the ability of the desert to recover and rejuvenate."Alexander, Pamela
Commonwealth of Wings: An Ornithological Biography
Wesleyan UP: Hanover, New Hampshire, 1991. Altherr, Thomas L.
The Country We Have Married: Wendell Berry and the Georgic Tradition of Agriculture
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Southern Studies
Berry's poetry read in light of a Virgilian Georgic tradition of pastoral. Emphasizes his Calvinist work ethic, sustainability, & stewardship in the poems.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ammons, A.R.
Garbage
Editor
Norton: New York, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anderson, William
Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth
Editor
Harper Collins: San Francisco, 1990.
Study of ancient archetype in Western European Folklore, literature, art, and architecture "signif[ying] irrepressible life" and "the union of humanity and the vegetable world." Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anderson, Lorraine
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature
Editor
Vintage: New York, 1991.
Poems, short stories, essays, novel excerpts, journal entries, autobiography, natural history by nineteeenth-and twentieth-century American women. Annotated bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anderson, David J.
New England, Ohio's Western Reserve, and the New Jerusalem in the West
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Midamerica
Early settlement of frontier Ohio and cultural attitudes toward the land.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Arant, Tommy Joe
'House Made of Dawn' and the Social Context of Contemporary Native American Literature
Editor
DAI 52 (1992): 3278-A: n.p., 1992.
Claims Momaday's book meets all requirements of Perry Anderson's "model for the modernist social conjecture," though it "differs in important ways from Anderson's modernist paradigm."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Argyros, Alexander J.
A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution, and Chaos
Editor
n.p.: Ann Arbor, 1991.
Series: Studies in Literature and Science
This study proposes a new scientific paradigm based on chaos theory and evolutionary epistemology, providing "an alternative to both metaphysical closure and deconstructive demystification" (6). Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Badiner, Allan Hunt
Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology
Editor
Parallax Press: Berkeley, California, 1990.
Thirty-one literary and philosophical contributions discuss green Buddhism, perception, extended mind, becoming Sangha, the sentience of Earth, and calls to action. Illustrations.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bahre, Conrad Joseph
A Legacy of Change: Historic Human Change on Vegetation in the Arizona Borderlands
Editor
U of Arizona P: Tucson, AZ, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bailey, Mary Elizabeth
The Vine
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: College English
Poem personifying a vine.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bailey, Florence Merriam
No Woman Tenderfoot
Editor
Texas A&M U P: College Station, TX, 1993.
"Numerous excerpts from her ten books and more than one hundred articles, all describing joyfully the pleasures of studying live birds."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Banerjee, Dharmadas
Nature Imagery in Siegfried Sassoon's War Poetry
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Panjab University Research Bulletin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Banerjee, Soma
Mirroring the Land: The Nature Poetry in Australian Literature
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990-91.
Series: The Commonwealth Review --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barber, Dee Seton
Woodcraft is Lifecraft, 1902-1992: In Celebration of 90 Years
Editor
Seton Village Press: Santa Fe, NM, 1992.
A collection of articles, poems and impressions about E. T. Seton's Woodcraft organization and its revival. Includes contact addresses.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barillas, William
Placelessness against Place: Willa Cather's Nebraska Novels
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Midwestern Miscellany
Although Cather's characters attach physically and emotionally to place in Nebraska, they are also pulled back to European roots and forward to modern materialism.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Duncan, James S.
Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
Editor
Routledge: London and New York, 1992.
Essays by thirteen geographers represent a post-structuralist view of geographical description and "explore the dynamics of power in the representation of landscape." Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barnie, J.
Poetry and the New Nature
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Poetry Wales --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barth, Gunther
Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History
Editor
Oxford UP: New York, 1990.
This book about moments of harmony between nature and culture focuses on the Lewis and Clark expedition and the creation of city parks. Bibliographical essay.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bass, Rick
The Yaak Chronicles
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Outside
Excerpts from a work in progress on winter homesteading in Montana's backcountry.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bass, Rick
Winter: Notes from Montana
Editor
Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1991.
Essays.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bass, Rick
The Ninemile Wolves
Editor
Clark City Press: Livingston, Montana, 1992.
Story of Montana's Ninemile wolf pack, a group of pups abandoned by their mother.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brown, Kerry
Buddhism and Ecology
Editor
Cassell: New York, 1992.
Series: World Religions and Ecology Series
This book's three sections ("The Teachings," "The Practice," and "Meeting the Global Crisis") include ten articles by Buddhists from around the world. Illustrations.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bate, Jonathan
Wordsworth, Ruskin, and the Moral of Landscape
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Literature and Belief --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bate, Jonathan
Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
Editor
Routledge: London, 1991.
A "rereading" of Wordsworth's poetry of nature as a hallmark of Romanticism's involvement in things environmental. A "preliminary sketch towards a literary ecocriticism."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bauer, Michel Wayne
Romantic Naturalism in the American Essay: The Formation and Evolution of a Literary Tradition
Editor
DAI 53 (July 1992): 148-A: n.p., 1992.
Describes "a cultural and historical paradigm" which established "romantic naturalism," especially in the works of Rachel Carson, Loren Eisley, E. B. White, and Annie Dillard.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bear, Ray A. Young
The Invisible Musician
Editor
Holy Cow! Press: Duluth, MN, 1990. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Becker, John E.
Science and Poetry: The Essays of Steven Jay Gould
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Becker, John E.
A Concealed Totality: Science and Poetry in The Essays of Stephen Jay Gould
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Using Lukacs, Frye, and the Bible, Becker defines poetry such that Gould's essays, despite his disclaimers, can legitimately be called poetic. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bedsworth, William
The Verdict
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Sierra
Judge Bedsworth writes about enforcing California's tough hazardous-waste laws.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Begeibing, Robert J. and Owen Grumbling
The Literature of Nature: The British and American Traditions
Editor
Plexis: Medford, NJ, 1993.
Poems, short stories, and essays by nineteenth-and twentieth-century British and American writers who "observed acutely, thought deeply, and wrote artfully" about the natural world.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bender, Robert
A Sense of Place in the Work of Marge Piercy
Editor Sue Walker and Eugenie Hammer
Negative Capability: Mobile, AL, 1991.
Series: Ways of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bending, Stephen
Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: The Huntington Library Quarterly
Analyzes writings about landscape gardens in an attempt "to demonstrate the continuing role" of these gardens "as a public site for competing cultural interests" (379).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Benediktsson, Thomas E.
Montana Ecologue: The Pastoral Art of William Stafford
Editor Leonard M. Trawick
Kent State UP: Kent, OH, 1990.
Series: World, Self, Poem: Essays on Contemporary Poetry from the "Jubilation of Poets" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bennet, Jane and William Chaloupka
In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment
Editor
University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1993.
Anthology of essays that "demonstrate how the concept of nature is invoked and constituted in a wide range of cultural projects." Variety of critical approaches.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bennett, P.
Late 19th Century Women's Nature Poetry and the Evolution of the Imagist Poem
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Legacy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Benson, Jackson J.
'Eastering': Wallace Stegner's Love Affair with Vermont in Coming to Safety
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Western American Literature
Suggests that Stegner's "promised land" of myth and dream has moved back East, his love of place drawn to the renewed wilderness of Vermont.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bergman, Charles
Wild Echoes: Encounters with the Most Endangered Animals in North America
Editor
McGraw Hill: New York, 1990.
Describes encounters with owls, wolves, condors, panthers, ferrets, sparrows, whales, and other endangered animals. Calls for "a rethinking of our relationships with animals" (10). Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bergman, Charles
Borderline Birds
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Audubon --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bergman, Charles
The Bust!
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Audubon
An undercover journalist participates in a "bust" of bird smugglers. Discusses the illegal trade of pet birds and calls for legislation and captive breeding.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bergman, Charles
Manatees and the Metaphors of Desire
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Orion
The author's encounter with manatees leads him to consider "the way that perceptual metaphors and cultural images define our relationships with nature" (25).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bernhardt, Peter
Natural Affairs: A Botanist Looks at the Attachments between Plants and People
Editor
Villard: New York, 1993.
These fourteen essays about the author's work in Australia and elsewhere blend "art, literature, science, and scholarship" (xiv). Annotated bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berry, Wendell
What Are People For?
Editor
North Point Press: San Francisco, 1990.
Essays, on topics including farming, computers, Ed Abbey, Huck Finn, community.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Biehl, Janet
Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics
Editor
South End P: Boston, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------McDaniel, Jay B.
Liberating Life: Contemporary Approaches to Ecological Theology
Editor
Orbis: New York, 1990.
This collection investigates ecological issues in the light of Christian scripture and ethics, including some "third world" and unorthodox religious perspectives.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Black, Ralph W.
W.S. Merwin and the Nature of Nature
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: The American Nature Writing Newsletter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anderson, Kat
Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians
Editor
Ballena P: Menlo Park, CA, 1993.
Surveys aboriginal environmental management techniques in California by studying anthropological, ethnographic, and biological sources.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pellow, C. Kenneth
Higher Elevations: Stories from the West; A Writers' Forum Anthology
Editor
Ohio U P: Athens,Oh, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boice, Judith
Mother Earth: Through the Eyes of Women Photographers and Writers
Editor
Sierra Club Books: San Francisco, 1992.
Includes Ann Zwinger and Gretel Ehrlich.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bonds, Diane S.
The Language of Nature in the Poetry of Mary Oliver
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Women's Studies
A "Specifically Feminist' reading of Oliver; examines how the natural world is attended to, and constructed, beyond the scope of patriarchal language and culture.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bone, Drummond
Shelley, Wordsworth, and Byron: The Detail of Nature
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: The Wordsworth Circle --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bonta, Marcia
Appalachian Spring
Editor
U of Pittsburgh P: Pittsburgh, 1991.
Journal entries about the flora and fauna around the author's hillside home in Pennsylvania. A "love song about the place and season" she loves best.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bonta, Marcia
Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists
Editor
Texas A&M University Press: n.p., 1991.
Narrates the stories of 25 women naturalists from the late 18th century to today.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Borland, Hal
This Hill, This Valley
Editor Charles E. Little
Johns Hopkins Up: Baltimore, 1990 (1957).
Series: American Land Classics
This book, "an account of one man's seeing and thinking and his attempts at understanding" (xi), traces the seasons from a hillside farm in Connecticut.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Kellert, Stephen R.
Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle
Editor
Yale UP: New Haven, 1991.
Thirteen articles about species diversity, agriculture, values, pollution, market mechanisms. Contributors include E.O. Wilson, David Ehrenfeld, William Goldfarb, Thomas Eisner, and Wes Jackson. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Borrelli, Brian Swann and Peter
Poetry from the Amicus Journal
Editor
Tioga Publishing: Palo Alto, CA, 1990.
55 poets selected from The Amicus Journal, a publication of the National Resources Defence Council.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boschman, Robert
Anne Bradstreet and Elizabeth Bishop: Nature, Culture and Gender in 'Contemplations' and 'At the Fishhouses'
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Journal of American Studies --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Botkin, Daniel B.
Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century
Editor
Oxford UP: New York; Oxford, 1990.
These twelve scholarly essays explore the causes of the current environmental crisis and propose a new understanding of our relationship to the rest of nature.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boudreau, Gordon V.
The Roots of Walden and the Tree of Life
Editor
Vanderbilt UP: Nashville, 1990.
A study of the "Deep Cut" passages, which "reveal something of the passage from the unconscious to the conscious in the creative process" (3). Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowden, Charles
Dave Foreman!: In the Face of Reality
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Buzzworm
Profile of Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, with considerable mention of writers Ed Abbey, Doug Peacock, and others.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowden, Charles
Desierto: Memories of the Future
Editor
W. W. Norton: New York, 1991.
Essays from the Southwest.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowden, Charles
Children of the Sun
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Buzzworm
Essay on Cabeza de Vaca, occasioned by Columbian quincentennial.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowers, Janice Emily
The Mountains Next Door
Editor
University of Arizona Press: Tucson, AZ, 1991.
Essays by a botanist about the Rincon mountains and the Sonoran desert.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowers, Janice Emily
A Full Life in a Small Place and Other Essays from a Desert Garden
Editor
University of Arizona Press: Tucson, AZ, 1993.
Essays by a botanist.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowler, Peter J.
The Norton History of Environmental Sciences
Editor
W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1993.
History of the emergence/development of the environmental sciences in Western culture, science's acquistion of authority and the changing values signaled by ecology and environmentalism. Bibliographical essay.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowman, Douglas C.
Beyond the Modern Mind: The Spiritual and Ethical Challenge of the Environmental Crisis
Editor
The Pilgrim P: New York, 1990.
A Christian theologian proposes a "postmodern" worldview, spirituality, and ethic to deal with the environmental crisis. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brantley, Richard E.
Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism: Wesley, Edwards, Carlyle and Emerson
Editor
UP of Florida: Gainesville, Florida, 1993.
Considers prose of Carlyle and Emerson "against the background of similarly notable, similarly nuanced, and even 'pre-Romantic prose of the mid-eighteenth century" (4). Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bright, William
A Coyote Reader
Editor
U of California P: Berkeley, 1993.
A collection of myths, stories and commentaries about Coyote, including translations by anthropologists and original works by Native and non-Native storytellers. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brower, David
The Life and Times of David Brower: For Earth's Sake
Editor
Peregrine Smith: Salt Lake City, 1990.
First volume of autobiography. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brower, David
Work in Progress
Editor
Peregrine Smith: Salt Lake City, 1991.
Second volume of autobiography -- "offers his prescription for peace and security in a sustainable society." Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brown, David and Neil Carmony
Aldo Leopold's Wilderness: Selected Early Writings by the Author of "A Sand County Almanac"
Editor
Stackpole: Harrisburg, PA, 1990.
20 essays, otherwise unavailable, focusing on Southwestern forests and hunting.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brox, Jane
From Here
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Georgia Review
This essay is about the author's father's farm in New England. Four sections: "Where We Are," "Apples," "Walnuts," "Winter."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bryant, Paul T.
Echoes, Allusions and Reality in Hayduke Lives!
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Western American Literature
Reveals how Abbey's tale of the "indomitability of nature in the face of destructive, mechanical human activity" draws heavily on many literary traditions and works.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bryant, Paul T.
The Structure and Unity of Desert Solitaire
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Western American Literature
Belying self-proclamations as a straightforward and unsophisticated writer, Abbey's Desert Solitaire reveals considerable philosophical and artistic sophistication, underlining the themes of his subsequent works.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bump, Jerome
Poet of Nature
Editor Alison G. Sulloway
Hall: Boston, 1990.
Series: Critical Essays on Gerard Manley Hopkins --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burgess, Cheryll
Ecocriticism: The Greening of Literary Studies
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burgess, Cheryll Anne
Out-of-Doors: Representations of Nature in Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty
Editor
DAI 51 (March 1991): 3071-A.: n.p., 1991.
Studies the "individual motifs common to the work of all three writers" in order to "correct the misimpressions created by the classics and their critics."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burgess, Cheryll
Nature in Women's Writing: Whose Footsteps to Follow
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: The American Nature Writing Newsletter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burroughs, John
Birch Browsings
Editor Bill McKibben
Penguin: New York, 1992.
New anthology of essays by John Burroughs.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burroughs, Franklin
The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low Country
Editor
Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1993.
Originally published as Horry and the Waccamaw, Norton, 1992.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burrows, Russell
Wallace Stegner's Version of Pastoral
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Western American Literature
Explores a number of Stegner's works in which machine and garden are juxtaposed in a modern, critical pastoral vision.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burton, Robert G.
Natural and Artificial Minds
Editor
State U of New York P: Albany, 1993.
"[E]xplores six current approaches to the study of mind: the neuroscientific, the behavioral-experimental, the competence approach, the ecological, the phenomenological, and the computational" (vii).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Butler, Douglas R.
Norman Maclean's "A River Runs Through It": Word, Water, and Text
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Author deconstructs text focusing on the textuality of the river, fly-fishing, narrrative, and Bible.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Buzzworm editors
EcoVoice: Farewell to the Environment?
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Buzzworm
John Nichols, Farley Mowat, Bill McKibben, Barry Lopez, and China Galland respond to the question, "Is the environment going to go away?"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cameron, Sarah
Natural Enemies
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Buzzworm
Excerpt from eponymous novel, winner of 1993 Edward Abbey Ecofiction Award.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Campbell, J.L.
'It is as if a green bough were laid across the page': Thoreau on Eloquence
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Analyzes Thoreau's theory of rhetoric, especially his thoughts on eloquence as incompatible with his study of Whately's psychological rhetoric.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Carlson, Douglas (Guest Editor)
Focus on Nature Writing
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: The Georgia Review
Entire issue devoted to nature writing: essays, fiction, book reviews, poetry, artwork.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Carlson, Douglas
Digging for Vulnerability
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Georgia Review
This introductory essay to a nature-writing issue of the journal deals with Cape Cod and the vulnerability of the natural world.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cartmill, Matt
A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History
Editor
Harvard UP: Cambridge, MA, 1993.
Historical discussion of attitudes toward hunting and nature in general. Includes religious, economic, social, and political perspectives. Extensive bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Castanier, Chris
Roadworks: The Open Frontier in American Literature of Travel
Editor
DAI 53 (June 1993): 4318-A: n.p., 1993.
Claims the frontier is not closed, but is "open to American writers who take to the road in an attempt to recreate the frontier experience."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Castiglia, Christopher Dean
Captive Subjects: The Captivity Narrative and American Women's Writing
Editor
DAI 52 (May 1992): 3926-A: n.p., 1992.
Examines the social and cultural relationships between captivity romances and narratives and the "more traditionally 'feminine' genres" in the context of "'mainstream' American literature."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Castleman, Michael
This Place Make Me Sick
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Sierra
Castleman discusses multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), a controversial disease some experts claim is caused by environmental factors such as air pollution, household cleaners and processed foods.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Caufield, Catherine
Upstream Slowly
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Sierra
While floating down the Amur River, Caufield discusses the plants and creatures that live there as well as the industrial development which threatens the river.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cavell, Stanley
The Senses of Walden
Editor
U of Chicago P: Chicago, 1992.
The 1981 edition includes three essays ("Words," "Sentences," and "Portions") which approach Walden as an early work of American philosophy. Includes two essays on Emerson.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chenetier, Marc
Tinkering, Extravagance: Thoreau, Melville, and Annie Dillard
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Author makes connections of intertextual dependency between three writers. Literary knowledge influences our experience in nature. Discusses impact of Nature/culture on text.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chiras, Daniel D.
Lessons from Nature: Learning to Live Sustainably on Earth
Editor
Island Press: Washington, D.C., 1992.
This book proposes an environmental ethic based on sustainability and offers suggestions for implementing this ethic through personal, governmental, and corporate action. Annotated bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christianson, Gale E.
Fox at the Wood's Edge: A Biography of Loren Eiseley
Editor
Henry Holt: New York, 1990.
Traces the life of the anthropologist and nature writer from his Nebraska childhood until his death in 1977. Includes discussions of major works. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clarke, George
The Moving Temples of Stowe: Aesthetics of Change in an English Landscape over Four Generations
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: The Huntington Library Quarterly
A history of the Stowe gardens of England, with special attention paid to changes in landscape and moving of buildings in the eighteenth century.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clarke, Graham
American Landscapes: Three Volume Set: Sources and Documents
Editor
Routledge: New York, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clarke, Graham
The American Landscape: Literary Sources and Documents
Editor
Routledge: New York, 1993.
Selections from and discussions of American nature writing classics from 1584 to 1907. Volumes II and III focus on the nineteenth century. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cobb, Edith
The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood
Editor
Spring Publications: Dallas, 1993 (1977).
Applies ecological and psychological principles to remind us that "ecological destruction ultimately begins from within the child...with the loss of imagination."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cokinos, Christopher
After the Obit: The Greening of Contemporary American Poetry
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: The American Nature Writing Newsletter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Coleman, Jane Candia
Shadows in My H;ands: A Southwestern Odyssey
Editor
Ohio U P: Athens, OH, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Coleman, Jane Candia
Stories from Mesa Country
Editor
Ohio University P: Athens, OH, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Coletta, W. John.
The Great Web of Being: Ecological and Evolutionary Aesthetics and the Ideology of Biology.
Editor
DAI 50 (March 1990): 2895-A: n.p., 1990.
A comparison of "the aesthetics of the Great Chain of Being and the aesthetics of an emergent Great Web of Being."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Collins, Martha
A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet
Editor
U of Georgia P: Athens, GA, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Conzen, Michael P.
The Making of the American Landscape
Editor
Unwin Hyman: Boston, 1990.
Focuses on the cultural landscape, including architectural legacies of ethnic groups and impact of agriculture, deforestation, and industry on the natural landscape. Photographs, maps, bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cook, Martha
Nikki Giovanni: Place and Sense of Place in Her Poetry
Editor Tonette Bond Inge
U of Alabama P: Tuscaloosa. AL, 1990.
Series: Southern Women Writers: The New Generation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cooper, Marc
Alerce Dreams
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Sierra
In spite of efforts from environmentalists, Chile's endangered alerce tree -- an ancient conifer coveted for its fine-grained, water-resistant wood -- continues to be illegally harvested.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Corbett, Mary Jean
Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies
Editor
Oxford UP: New York, 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cornell, Daniel
A Vision of Stewardship: Wendell Berry's Ecological Ethic
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Literature and Belief --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Costanza, Robert
Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability
Editor
Columbia UP: New York, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Eysturoy, Annie O.
This Is about Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers
Editor
U of New Mexico P: Albuquerque, 1990.
Interviews with such writers as Edward Abbey, N. Scott Momady, Rudolofo Anaya, Paula Gunn Allen, Denise Chavez, Pat Mora, and others.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daggy, Robert E.
Choirs of Millions: Thomas Merton and God's Creatures
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: The Merton Seasonal
Presidential Address at the Second General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society, 13 June 1991; overview of Merton's writing about the song of creation, Genesis 1 and 2, and human abuse of nature.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daggy, Robert E.
Thomas Merton: The Desert Call
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: The Merton Seasonal
A study of Merton's sense of place, commitment to solitude, and his response to the physical geography of New Mexico.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daly, Herman E.
Steady-State Economics (second edition with new essays)
Editor
Island P: Washington, D.C., 1991.
Prominent green economist explains the economics of sustainability and explodes the orthodox "progrowth" alternative.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dana, Elizabeth.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Linguistic Mirror of Nature: An Ecological Criticism.
Editor
MAI 30 (Fall 1992): 03-481.: n.p., 1992.
Considers how Rawlings's language shows "nature as a place of learning," with man part of the ecological community and "subject to the vicissitudes of nature."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daniel, John
The Trail Home
Editor
Pantheon: New York, 1992.
Literary essays on such topics as wilderness, monkeywrenching, dams, old-growth forests, mortality, and the ethical dilemma of rats in the house.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daniel, John
Dance of Denial
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Sierra
Describes the negative effects dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers have had on salmon populations.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daniels, Stephen
Love and Death across an English Garden: Constable's Paintings of His Family's Flower and Kitchen Garden
Editor
n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Huntington Library Quarterly --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Davis, William Paul.
The 'Lords' and 'Witnesses' of Creation: Mythologizing and Demythologizing Nature in American Literature.
Editor
DAI 51 (September 1990): 850-A.: n.p., 1990.
"Traces the shift from 'Lord' to 'Witness' in Emerson, Thoreau, John Burroughs, and Annie Dillard," focusing primarily on "the 'questions' these writers bring to nature."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Davis, Randall Craig.
Firewater Myths: Alcohol and Portrayals of Native Americans in American Literature.
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DAI 52 (November 1991): 1746-A.: n.p., 1991.
An examination of "some of the most pervasive" assumptions in the "firewater myths" in American literature from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dean, Tim
Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground
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St. Martin's: New York, 1991.
A psychonanalytic reading of Snyder, marginalizing Buddhist or Beat influences. Emphasizes tropes of habitation, ways of "Knowing the land."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dean, Bradley P.
Faith in a Seed: "The Dispersion of Seeds" and Other Natural History Writings by Henry D. Thoreau
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Island/Shearwater: Washington, D. C., 1993.
"The philosopher of Walden emerges as a dedicated scientific observer."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Decker, William Merrill
The Wild, the Divine, and the Human Word: Rereading Wendell Berry
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n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: North Dakota Quarterly --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Des Pres, Terrence
Self/Landscape/Grid: 20th Centure Poetry and Nuclear Awareness
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: New England Review
A reprint of a 1983 essay, discusses responsibility of the poet, of contemporary poetry generally, in the nuclear age.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------DesJardines, Joseph R.
Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy
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Wadsworth Publishing Company: Belmont, California, 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Detering, Heinrich
Okologische Krise und asthetische Innovation im Werk Wilhelm Raabes
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n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Jahrbuch der Raabe Gesellschaft
Examines the role of ecological destruction in the work of a 19th century German novelist.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Devall, Bill
Living Richly in An Age of Limits
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Gibbs-smith: Salt Lake City, UT, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Devall, Bill
Planting Seeds
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Buzzworm
Describes day of work rehabilitating damaged oak forest, in accordance with Buddhist practice.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Diamond, Irene and Gloria Feman Orenstein
Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism
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Sierra Club: San Francisco, 1990.
Anthology of articles, essays, and "poetic prose pieces" by prominent ecofeminists. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dietrich, Deborah Jean.
Into The Woods: The Evolution of the Journey Narrative In Early American Literature, 1620-1744.
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DAI 53 (September 1992): 809-A.: n.p., 1992.
Explores the progression of early American journey narratives, "from the seventeenth-century emphasis on God's plan to an eighteenth-century emphasis on man's reason."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dillard, Annie
The Living
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HarperPerennial: New York, 1992.
Historical novel set during the settlement of the Pacific Northwest in the late nineteenth century.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dillman, Richard
Essays on Henry David Thoreau: Rhetoric, Style, and Audience
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Locust Hill: West Cornwall, CT, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Doane, Benjamin
Following the Sea
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Chelsea Green: Post Mills, VT, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dobson, Andrew
The Green Reader: Essays Toward a Sustainable Society
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Mercury House: San Francisco, 1991.
Collection of essays central to green political thought, many of which are environmentalist "classics."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dodd, Elizabeth
Like Memory, Caverns
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New York UP: New York, 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Donovan, Josephine
Animal Rights and Feminist Theory
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n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Theorizes an animal rights ethic grounded in "a womens' relational culture of caring" rather than the "hyper-rationality" of male animal rights activists (e.g. Singer, Regan).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Donovan, Karen
Brief History of Peacetime
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n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: College English
Poem about raptors injured by machines.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Drout, Michael D. C.
Hoisting the Arm of Defiance: Beowulfian Elements in Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Western American Literature
Parallels between the novel and the epic include the heroes' unrelenting battles against overpowering natural forces bent on human destruction.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dunlap, Thomas R.
Nature Literature and Modern Science
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n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: Environmental History Review
Traces attempts to incorporate scientific insights in nature literature as science itself changed, from nineteenth century to present. "Successes" include Peattie, Carson, Carrighar, Stewart, Mowatt, Leopold.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dunsmore, Roger
Earth's Mind
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Studies in American Indian Literatures
Late nineteenth-century Nez Perce conceptions of how humanity shares "one mind" with the earth.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Eckersley, Robyn
Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach
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SUNY P: Albany, NY, 1992.
Thoroughly delineates and advocates an "ecocentric perspective," then interrogates from this perspective the spectrum of ecopolitical thought (thereby exposing anthropocentrism in surprising places).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Orr, David W.
The Campus and Environmental Responsibility
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Sierra Club Books: San Francisco, 1991.
Essays describing successful environmental initiatives on various U.S. campuses. Efforts covered are both curricular and institutional (e.g. energy audits).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ehrenfeld, David
Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millenium
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Oxford University Press: New York, 1993.
Essays on conservation/preservation and the effects of technology on the natural world.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ehrlich, Gretel
Islands, the Universe, Home
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Penguin: New York, 1991.
Essays from Wyoming as well as Japan on the relationships between humans and the natural worlds. Paintings by the author.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ehrlich, Gretel
Arctic Heart
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Capra: Santa Barbara, 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elbers, Joan S.
Changing Wilderness Values, 1930-1990: An Annotated Bibliography
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Greenwood: New York, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elder, John
Following the Brush
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Beacon Press: Boston, 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elder, John
Mary Oliver's Question
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: The American Nature Writing Newletter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elkins, Andrew
The Ecological Vision of Thomas Hornsby Ferril
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n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Western American Literature
Explores the Rocky Mountain poet's vision that the human should not take dominion over the natural and considers Ferril's attitudes toward place and space.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ellis, Steve
The English Eliot: Design, Language and Landscape in Four Quartets
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Routledge: New York, 1991. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ellison, John, ed., and photographs by Christopher Harris
Beloved of the Sky: Essays and Photographs on Clearcutting
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Broken Moon Press: Seattle, 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Engel, Joan Gibb.
Remembering For the Trees.
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DAI 52 (December 1991): 2142-A.: n.p., 1991.
Collection of essays on "the fact and symbol of the tree," which "seek to reveal the connection between artificial and natural."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Engel, Leonard
Landscape and Place in Tony Hillerman's Mysteries
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Western American Literature
Hillerman renders an intricate, multidimensional, Native American mythos that places the land at the center of its belief system.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Erdrich, Louise
Skunk Dreams
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: The Georgia Review
Meditation on human relationships with nature. Considers those "wild" creatures that become semi-dependent on humans and those that remain stubbornly independent.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Erisman, Fred
Farmer Boy: The Forgotton 'Little House' Book
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n.p.: n.p., 1993.
Series: Western American Literature
The relationship between Eastern farmer and Western pioneer supplies cultural and thematic elements essential to understanding Laura Ingalls Wilder's accounts of the American westering experience.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tikalsky, Frank
The Grand Canyon: Intimate Views
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U of Arizona P: Tucson, AZ, 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Evernden, Neil
The Social Creation of Nature
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The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1992.
An examination, as a preliminary to environmental concerns, of what our culture means by "nature" and how that meaning has evolved over five centuries.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Falk, Marcia
Strange Plant: Nature and Spirituality in the Poetry of Zelda. A translator's reading.
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n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Religion and Literature --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Falkenstein, Linda Anne
The Simulated Wilderness in the Contemporary American Novel.
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DAI 52 (May 1992): 3927-A.: n.p., 1992.
Suggests that "reification" of Nineteenth Century wilderness retreat texts created a "new generation of these texts based primarily in earlier texts, [not] on actual experience."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Farrell, Kate
Art & Nature: An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, 1992.
Arranged in seasonal sections; international in scope. Covers period from antiquity to the present. With color reproductions of paintings from the Met's collection.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Faurot, Margaret
Hardy's Topographical Lexicon and the Canon of Intent: A Reading of the Poetry
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Peter Lang: New York, 1990. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Felch, Susan M.
Nature as Emblem: Natural Images in T.S. Eliot's Early Poetry
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n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: Yeats Eliot Review: A Journal of Criticism and Scholarship --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ferguson, Gary
Walking Down the Wild: A Journey Through the Yellowstone Rockies
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Simon & Schuster: New York, 1993.
The history of Yellowstone and its current enviromental problems are narrated as the author circumnavigates the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Finch, Robert, and John Elder
The Norton Book of Nature Writing
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Norton: New York, 1990.
British and American nature writing from the eighteenth century to the present. 125 selections from 94 writers. Nearly half the selections published after 1945. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Finch, G.L.
Larkin, Nature, and Romanticism
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n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Critical Survey --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Finch, Robert
Nature in the Nuclear Age
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n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: New England Review & Breadloaf Quarterly --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Finch, Robert
A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader
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Norton: New York, 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fine, David
Running out of Space: Vanishing Landscapes in California Novels
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n.p.: n.p., 1991.
Series: Western American Literature
The works of California novelists explore tensions between California's image of escape and mobility and the sense of having run out of "space to move."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fisher, Marvin
Seeing New Englandly: Anthropology, Ecology, and Theology in Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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n.p.: n.p., 1990.
Series: The Centennial Review, East Lansing, Mi
Looks at Thoreau's roots in Native American relationships to nature and in the religious ideas of Edward Johnson and Cotton Mather.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Callicott, J. Baird
The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold
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U of Wisconsin P: Madison, 1991.
60 essays by Aldo Leopold, spanning his literary career. Bibliography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fleck, Richard F.
Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction
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Three Continents Press, Inc.: Washington, D.C., 1993. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Foley, Andrew
A Sense of Place in Contemporary White South African English Poetry
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n.p.: n.p., 1992.
Series: English in Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fox, Warwick
Toward a Transpersonal Ecology
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Shambhala: Boston, 1990. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Frome, Michael
Regreening the National Parks
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