1996-1997 ASLE Bibliography
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Water, Opposing Viewpoints Series. San Diego:, Greenhaven,: 1994.
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Endangered Species, Opposing Viewpoints Series. San Diego, CA:, Greenhaven,: 1996.
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"The Third Annual Humanities Symposium: Nature's Infinite Book: Perspectives on Humans and the Cosmos."
Series: University of Dayton Review 24, no. 2 (1996).
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Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Edited by Keir B. Sterling. Westport, CN:, Greenwood Pr.,: 1997.
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Garbage, Overview Series. San Diego:, Greenhaven P,: 1997.
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The Soul Unearthed: Celebrating Wildness and Personal Renewal Through Nature. New York:, Putnam's,: 1996.
An anthology of 66 writers exploring their relationship to what is wild within and without. Includes suggested readings in books, periodicals, and journals, and appendix of wilderness resources. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Adams, Arthur G., ed.
The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology. Bronx:, Fordham UP,: 1997.
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Wells Brothers: The Young Castle King. Lincoln:, U of Nebraska P,: 1997.
Historical fiction set during an 1856 Kansas winter, when orphaned brothers abandon their dead father's farm to pursue the idealized promise of cattle ranching.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Adams, Ansel and Andrea G. Stillman (ed.).
California. Boston:, Little, Brown,: 1997.
A collection of Adams's California photographs combined with writing by California writers including Austin, Didion, Jeffers, Kerouac, King, McPhee, Muir, Stegner, Steinbeck, and Wilder.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Adams, Bluford E.
Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture. Minneapolis:, U of Minnesota P,: 1997.
Adams compares the popularity of Barnum to changing culture in the nineteenth century U.S.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Adams, John Luther.
"The Place Where You Go to Listen."
Series: Terra Nova 2, no. 3 (1997): 15-16.
A composer writes of nature's sounds. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ade-Odutola, Kole.
""Population Pump," "Rain of Votes!"."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4 (1997): 2103-105.
Two environmental poems by Nigerian poet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Agee, Chris.
In the New Hampshire Woods. Dublin:, Daedalus Pr,: 1992. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Agee, Chris.
The Sierra de Zacatecas. Mexico City:, Ediciones Popeles Privados,: 1995.
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Bombardier Beetles and Fever Trees: A Close-up Look at Chemical Warfare in Animals and Plants. Reading, MA:, Addison Wesley,: 1996.
A detailed account of the way animals and plants use chemically based scents, fragrances, tastes, and odors to attack, defend, eat, and avoid being eaten. An introduction for the general reader to the science of chemical ecology, describing the transmission and reception of chemicals between organisms.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alaimo, Stacy.
"Displacing Darwin and Descartes: The Bodily Transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan."
Series: ISLE:Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3, no. 1 (1996): 47-66.
Examines the dualistic, hierarchical construction of race, gender and nature as treated by Burke, Butler and Hogan. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alcock, John.
In a Desert Garden. :, ,: 1997.
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Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat. New York:, Harper,: 1997.
Memoirs of the ship's cat, based on known facts of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alexie, Sherman.
Indian Killer. New York:, Atlantic Monthly P,: 1996.
A dark novel which challenges readers to examine the stereotypes they bring to the text; reviews note it is a change from Alexie's previously humorous and lyrical work.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Allaby, Michael.
Basics of Environmental Science. New York:, Routledge,: 1996.
A non-technical introduction to the various disciplines involved in scientific study of environments. Includes diagrams and glossary.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Allen, Paula Gunn.
Life is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems 1964-1994. Albuquerque:, U of New Mexico P,: 1996.
A selection from the poetry of a prominent Native American poet and critic.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Allen, Paul M. and Joan deRis Allen.
Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures: A Modern Spiritual Path. Hudson, NY:, Anthroposophical P,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Allport, Susan.
A Natural History of Parenting: From Emperor Penguins to Reluctant Ewes, a Naturalist Looks at Parenting in the Animal World and Ours. New York:, Harmony,: 1997.
Interprets maternal and paternal behaviorin a wide range of animals, including humans, through the lens of evolutionary biology.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alpers, Paul.
What is Pastoral? Chicago:, U of Chicago P,: 1996.
Seeks to reign in expansive uses of the term pastoral and presents a formalist re-evaluation of pastoral as a literary mode.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Altany, Alan.
"Thomas Merton's Poetic Incarnation of Emptiness."
Series: The Merton Annual 10 (1997): 109-130.
Documents Merton's poetic transformation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alulis, Joseph.
"Fathers and Children: Matter, Mirth, and Melancholy in As You Like It." In Shakespeare's Political Pageant: Essays in Literature and Politics, edited by Joseph and Vickie Sullivan Alulis, 37-60. Lanham, MD:, Rowman & Littlefield,: 1996.
Treatment of nature, conventions, and justice in William Shakespeare's As You Like It.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ambrose, Stephen E.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York:, Simon and Schuster,: 1996.
Epic-style story depicts with scholarly accuracy the adventures of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the West.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anaya, Rudolfo.
Rio Grande Fall. New York:, Warner,: 1996.
Another mystery for private investigator Sonny Baca to solve; this follow-up to Anaya's Zia Summer centers on a murder at the Albuquerque balloon festival.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anderson, E. N.
Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the Environment. New York:, Oxford UP,: 1996.
Arguing that environmental programs must engage emotions, an anthropologist discusses the ways traditional societies successfully manage resources based on emotional investment in religious beliefs.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anderson, Erland G.
"Stafford's 'Ask Me."
Series: Explicator 54, no. 3 (1996): 175-77.
Treatment of winter landscape in the poetry of a 20th century American author. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anderson, Alison.
Media, Culture and the Environment. New Brunswick, NJ:, Rutgers UP,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Angus, Ian.
A Border Within: National Identity, Cultural Plurality, and Wilderness. Montreal:, McGill-Queens UP,: 1997.
Attempts an EnglishCanadian Philosophy which questions relationships between borders and wilderness while resisting homogeneity.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Archer, Emily.
"Abundant, Multiple, Restless: Levertov and Merton in the 1960s."
Series: The Merton Annual 10 (1997): 131+.
Discusses Levertov and Merton as psalmists of the world. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Arendt, Randall G.
Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks. Washington, DC:, Island P,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Armbruster, Karla.
"Blurring Boundaries in Ursula Le Guin's "Buffalo Gals,Won't You Come Out Tonight": A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3, no. 1 (1996): 17-46.
Suggests the potential of Poststructuralism to expand the theoretical base of ecofeminist literary criticism: uses this base for analysis of "Buffalo Gals.". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aspen, Jean.
Arctic Daughter: A Wilderness Journey. 1988. Birmingham, AL:, Menasha Ridge P,: 1996.
See following entry.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aspen, Jean.
Arctic Son: Fulfilling the Dream. 1995. Birmingham, AL:, Menasha Ridge P,: 1996.
Complementary accounts of the author's lengthy sojourns in Alaska's Brooks Range; the first details her own experience of Alaska's wilds with her adventurer parents, while the second focuses on her four-year-old son and his adjustment to life in the Arctic and is appropriate for younger readers.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------August, E. R.
"Confronting the Earth Spirit: Humans and Nature in the Universe Story."
Series: University of Dayton Review 24, no. 2 (1996): 7-18.
Treatment of nature and spirituality. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ayers, Edward L.
All Over the Map : Rethinking American Regions. Baltimore:, Johns Hopkins UP,: 1996.
Historians explore regionalism and the relationship between history and geography.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Baarschers, William H.
Eco-facts & Eco-fiction: Understanding the Environmental Debate. New York:, Routledge,: 1996.
Seeks to "improv[e] the effectiveness of the environmental debate" by examining the way "eco-language" contributes to disagreement about environmental issues.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Backes, David.
A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson. Minneapolis:, U of Minnesota P,: 1997.
A biography of Sigurd Olson with emphasis on "Olson the man," rather than on Olson the icon, describing his "search for meaning and fulfillment" and his engagement with ecology.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Badaracco, Claire.
Animated Outsiders: Echoes of Merton in Hampl, Norris, Dillard, and Ehrlich. Louisville:, The Human Way Out,: 1996.
Essay detailing the spiritual and literary influence of Merton on these nature writers.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bak, Per.
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. New York:, Springer-Verlag,: 1996.
Physical and social structures evolve toward critical states contingent upon minor events, proving catastrophe and instability inevitable.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Baker, Carlos.
Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait. New York:, Viking,: 1996.
A "group biography" of Emerson and this Concord circle, based on journal entries and correspondence by Emerson and others. Introduction and Epilogue by James R. Rellon.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Baldwin, J.
Bucky Works: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today. New York:, John Wiley & Sons,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barbier, Edward.
Paradise Lost? : The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity. London:, Earthscan,: 1994.
Economists and ecologists analyze the causes of biodiversity loss, and the measures required to reverse it.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barker, Rodney.
And the Waters Turned to Blood: The Ultimate Biological Threat. New York:, Simon and Schuster,: 1997.
JoAnn Burkholder discovers deadly organism in North Carolina waters and is besieged by governmental and academic bureaucracy.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barnes, Claude T.
The Natural History of a Mountain Year: Four Seasons in the Wasatch Range. Salt Lake City:, U of Utah P,: 1996.
Reissue of the 1959 publication by Utah naturalist Claude Barnes, based on his observations of Utah's Wasatch Range between the early 1920s and the late 1950s.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barnes, Michael H.
"The Place of Nature in the Thought of Teilhard de Chardin."
Series: University of Dayton Review 24, no. 2 (1996): 48-56.
Nature's treatment by Pierre S. J. Teilhard de Chardin. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barnes, Kim.
In The Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country. New York:, Doubleday,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barrett, Andrea.
Ship Fever: Stories. New York:, W. W. Norton,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bartlett, Richard A.
Troubled Waters: Champion International and the Pigeon River Controversy. Knoxville, TN:, U of Tennessee P,: 1995.
Chronicles the conflict between government agencies, environmentalists and Champion International Corporation over pollution of the Pigeon River in western North Carolina with pollutants resulting from paper production.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bass, Rick.
The Book of Yaak. Boston:, Houghton Mifflin,: 1996.
A plea to save the remaining wild areas of northwestern Montana's Yaak Valley, arguing that "if places like the Yaak are lost, we too are lost.".--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bass, Rick.
The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness. Boston:, Houghton Mifflin,: 1997.
Bass's collection of three fine novellas interweaves the natural world, character, and narrative.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Basso, Keith H.
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque:, U of New Mexico P,: 1996.
Discusses the interconnections of place with the history, morals, manners, and wisdom of the Western Apache, winner of the Western States Book Award for creative nonfiction.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Batchen, Geoffrey.
Burning With Desire: The Conception of Photography. Cambridge:, The MIT P,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bates, Kim.
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country. New York:, Doubleday,: 1996.
Memoir recounting author's growing up in the timber camps of Idaho.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Batra, Nandita.
"Dominion, Empathy, and Symbiosis: Gender and Anthropocentrism in Romanticism."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3, no. 2 (1996): 101-120.
Male romantacists tended to reinforce dualistic separation of human and animal, while female romantacists dismantle this dualism: includes historical purview of human view of animals. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Baylor, George Wythe. Ed. Jerry D. Thompson.
Into the Far Wild Country: True Tales of the Old Southwest. El Paso:, Texas Western P,: 1996.
Stories published by Baylor about his own and others' exploits, mostly on the Texas frontier; includes a biographical introduction and bibliography of related sources.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Becton.
SR Niagara a History of the Falls. :, ,: . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bednarek, Janet R. Daly.
"Dixy Lee Ray: A Life in Science and Nature."
Series: University of Dayton Review 24, no. 2 (1996-1997): 58-64.
Treatment of environmental movement in "Trashing the Planet" by Dixy Lee Ray. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Begel, Susan F., Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney, Jr., eds.
Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Tuscaloosa:, U of Alabama P,: 1997.
A collection of 20 essays by an interdisciplinary array of contributors who consider the treatment of ecological issues in the work of John Steinbeck.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Beland, Pierre.
Beluga: A Farewell to Whales. New York:, Lyons and Burford,: 1996.
The story of the author's involvement with the beluga whales of the St. Lawrence River and his attempts to understand the impact of man's carelessness on their environment.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Belloc, Hilaire.
Hills and the Sea. Evanston, IL:, Marlboro P,: 1996.
Reissue of Belloc's 1906 narratives of travel through England and France highlight some of the most memorable adventures in the lives of the author and his companion.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Benson, Jackson J.
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work. New York:, Viking,: 1996.
Sympathetic and exhaustive biography that carefully traces the origins of Stegner's works in his experiences.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Benyus, Janine M.
Biomimicry: Innovations Inspired by Nature. New York:, William Morrow,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Benzer, Kevin and Kevin Walzer, eds.
The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines. Three Oaks Farm, OR:, Story Line P,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berc, Shelley.
The Shape of Wilderness. Minneapolis:, Coffee House,: 1995.
Surreal remapping of the myth of the New World through the suffering of twin sisters.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berg, Peter.
Discovering Your Life-Place: A First Bioregional Workbook. San Francisco:, Planet Drum,: 1996.
A collection of exercises to help elementary students define and appreciate their place in the world.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berger, Michael.
"The Saunterer's Vision: Henry Thoreau's Epiphany of Forest Dynamics in The Dispersion of Seeds."
Series: The Concord Saunterer 1996, no. 4 (1996): 45-71.
Essay discussing Thoreau's The Dispersion of Seeds as a successful mix of rigorous scientific observation and descriptive, lyrical prose, a combination of science and art, and its significance in the Thoreau canon. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berger, Bruce.
""Haunts of the Mirage," "The Plagiarist," "Rush Hour" "Cottonwood Marsh."."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4, no. 2 (1997): 97-98. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bergman, Charles.
Orion's Legacy : A Cultural History of Man as Hunter. New York:, Dutton,: 1997.
Bergman discusses the psychology of hunting and how it has influenced Western masculinity.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bernard, Ted.
The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability. East Haven, CT:, New Society Publishers,: 1996.
Bernard discusses the experiences of nine U.S. communities who each form grassroots organizations in order to preserve their natural resources.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berry, Thomas.
Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth. San Francisco:, Sierra Club,: 1996.
Reprints chapters 4, 10, 15, and 16 of Berry's 1988 The Dream of the Earth.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berry, Wendell.
A World Lost. Washington, DC:, Counterpoint,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berry, Wendell.
Entries: Poems. Washington, DC:, Counterpoint,: 1997.
Poems written over a fifteen year period, dealing with themes of community, family, and Berry's Kentucky farm. First paperback edition, originally published in 1994.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Berton.
Pierre. Niagara: A History of the Falls. E. Rutherford, NJ:, Kodansha,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bezner, Kevin and Kevin Walzer, ed.
The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines. Brownsville, OR:, Story Line P,: 1996.
The first book-length collection of critical reviews and essays about the work of Haines. Includes an interview, 17 critical essays, 11 reviews, and a selected bibliography. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bingham, Sam.
The Last Ranch: A Colorado Community and the Coming Desert. San Diego:, Harvest,: 1996.
Naturalist and writer narrates life in a small ranching community near Denver, raising political and philosophical issues regarding culture and the environment.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blair, Ruth.
"Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony in the Context of a Course Entitled "Language, Literature, and Environment."."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3, no. 2 (1996): 169-170. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blake, Lillie Devereux.
Fettered for Life: A Novel. New York:, Feminist P,: 1996.
An action-packed novel of a woman's struggle in the urban environment of nineteenth-century New York City. First published in 1874.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blanton, Casey.
Travel Writing: The Self and the World. New York:, Twayne Publishers,: 1997.
Blanton discusses the history of travel writing from classical times to the present.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blatz, Charles V., ed.
Ethics and Agriculture; An Anthology on Current Issues in World Context. Moscow:, U of Idaho P,: 1997.
A multidisciplinary collection of fifty-two selections about the aims, practitioners, conduct, and development of agriculture.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blend, Benay.
"I Was..the Very Heart of Wildness: Caroline Dormon, Naturalist and Preservation Activist."
Series: The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 35, no. 1 (1996): 69-73.
Environmental movement in the treatment of nature in Caroline Dormon's work. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blend, Benay.
"Caroline Dormon: A Louisiana Writer and Her Environmental Ethic."
Series: Louisiana Literature: A Review of Literature and Humanities 14, no. 1 (1997): 55-63.
Caroline Dormon's treatment of nature and the environmental movement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boase-Beier, Joan.
"Mats of Starry Moss: A Passage from Hardy's The Woodlanders; Papers in European Languages, Literatures and Culture." In Essays in Memory of Michael Parkinson and Janine Dakyns, edited by Christopher Smith. Norwich:, School of Modern Language & European Studies, U of East Anglia,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boaz, Noel Thomas.
Eco Homo: How the Human Being Emerged from the Cataclysmic History of the Earth. New York:, Basic Books,: 1997.
Boaz explores the ecological influences of human evolution.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bodo OFM, Murray.
"At Merton's Hermitage."
Series: Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion (1996): 12103-115.
Discusses the setting and atmosphere of Merton's woodland hermitage. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boggs, Rebecca Melora Corinne.
"Poetic Genesis, the Self, and Nature's Things in Hopkins."
Series: SEL: Studies in English Literature 37, no. 4 (1997): 831-855.
Relationships of religion, the self, inner life, and nature in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bordewich, Fergus M.
Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. New York:, Doubleday,: 1996.
Researches and demonstrates the modern day reinvention of Native Americans byNative Americans; examines myths, realities and stereotypes.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bortoft, Henri.
The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature. New York:, Lindisfarne,: 1996.
Discusses Goethe's holistic, participatory science of nature, and suggests the possibility of a new science of nature based on Goethe's vision.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boukreev, Anatol and G. Weston DeWalt.
The Climb. New York:, St. Martin's P,: 1997.
Controversial Russian alpinist puts in his two rubles' worth on the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy shortly before meeting his own demise.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowers, C. A.
The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. Albany, NY:, State U of New York P,: 1995.
Presents the argument that environmentalists must encourage the reform of public schools and universities to support ecologically sustainable paths for society.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowers, C. A.
Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture: Rethinking Moral Education, Creativity, Intelligence, and Other Modern Orthodoxies. Albany, NY:, State U of New York P,: 1995.
Examines how current educational practices in the areas of moral education, creativity, intelligence and experiential learning are preventing the development of an ecologically sustainable future. Explores the relationship between the educational process, cultural myths and the ecological crisis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowers, Janice Emily.
Fear Falls Away and Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places. Tucson:, U of Arizona P,: 1997.
Literary essays on mountains in southeastern Arizona where the author has lived for more than twenty years, speculating on place and intimacy. Thoughtful, loosely-connected personal essays about the author's life and work.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boyer, Dale K., et al., eds.
The Ahsahta Anthology: Poetry of the American West. Boise:, Ahsahta,: 1996.
A collection of over 225 poems by 46 new and well-know Western poets, including Peggy Church Pond, H. L. Davis, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Norman Macleod, and Gary Short. Includes brief biographies.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bradbury, Malcolm.
Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel. New York:, Viking,: 1996.
Exploration of motifs of European writers who have written about America and American writers who have written about Europe.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Branch, Michael P.
"Ecocritics and Earth Warriors: An Interview with David B. Morris."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4, no. 2 (1997): 61-70.
Focuses on the relationship between scholarship and activism. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Breschinsky, Dimitri N.
"Loren Eiseley in Russia: An Update."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4 (1997): 171-78.
A review of the project underway to translate Eiseley's writings into Russian: and his reception with Russian readers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Briggs, David, Peter Smithson, Kenneth Addison and Ken Atkinson.
Fundamentals of the Physical Environment. 2nd ed. London:, Routledge,: 1997.
A complete revision of the 1985 book Fundamentals of Physical Geography, this study describes physical and biological systems in the environment, as well as offering a regional approach with an emphasis on practicality.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Broad, William.
The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea. New York:, Simon & Shuster,: 1997.
Author and Pulitzer Prize winner William Broad writes a highly personal account of undersea explorations, examines the history of oceanic discovery -- scientific, commercial, military -- and warns of long and short term problems related to wholesale nuclear and other toxic dumping.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brown, Phil and Edwin J. Mikkelsen.
No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action. Berkeley:, U of California P,: 1997.
Relates the story of Woburn, MA community activists and their struggle with corporate polluters, local, state and federal agencies, and relations to experts and scientists defining toxic activism and popular epidemiology.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brush, Stephen B. and Doreen Stabinsky.
Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property Rights. Covelo, CA:, Island P,: 1996.
Examines the debate over a proposal to treat cultural and indigenous knowledge as a form of intellectual property.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bruteau, Beatrice.
" Eucharistic Cosmos."
Series: The Merton Annual 10 (1977): 77-107.
Description of the cosmos as energy-sharing, an essential unity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bryant, William Cullen II and Thomas G. Voss, eds.
The Letters of William Cullen Bryant. Bronx:, Fordham UP,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bryant, William Cullen II, ed.
Power for Sanity: Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-1861. Bronx:, Fordham UP,: 1996.
Bryant's New York Evening Post editorials serve to document his political and social maturity while "making over" a formerly conservative newspaper.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Buchmann, Stephen L. and Gary Paul Nabhan.
The Forgotten Pollinators. Washington, DC:, Island P,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Buckles, Mary Parker.
Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound. New York:, North Point,: 1997.
A collection of personal natural history essays on Long Island Sound, an area that has not yet attracted literary attention.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bunting, Robert.
The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778-1990. Lawrence:, U of Kansas P,: 1997.
A cultural and historical study of human interaction with the Douglas-fir region from Euroamerican contact up to the purchase of vast forest lands in Washington. In addition to an analysis of the impact of various cultures on the land and on each other, includes discussion of twentieth-century federal laws passed to manage the natural resources and rehabilitate the ecosystem.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burkert, Walter.
Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions. Cambridge:, Harvard UP,: 1996.
Traces early mythology to hunting rituals; argues that animal behavior demonstrates the natural foundations for humanity's societal rituals, its ideas of cosmic hierarchy, and its systems for negotiating relationships to the environment.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burnham, Christopher C.
"Out of the Shadows: Merton's Rhetoric of Revelation."
Series: The Merton Annual 9 (1996): 55-73.
Analysis of the process of revision in "Prisoner's Base" and "Rain and the Rhinoceros.". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Busch, Lawrence.
"Bringing Nature Back In."
Series: The Centennial Review 40, no. 3 (1996): 491-501.
Article argues for a new integrative social science of nature. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Busch, Robert.
Wolf Songs: The Classic Collection of Writing About Wolves. New York:, Sierra Club Books,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Butler, Hubert.
Independent Spirit: Essays. New York:, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Butler, Jack.
"Still Southern after All These Years." In The Future of Southern Letters, edited by Jefferson and John Lowe Humphries, 33-40. New York:, Oxford University Press,: 1996.
Treatment of place in Southern American literature.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Butler, James A.
"Tourist or Native Son: Wordsworth's Homecomings of 1790-1800."
Series: Nineteenth-Century Literature 51 (1997): 1-15.
Suggests that Wordsworth was able to produce his best poetry about the Lake District only after seeing himself as a resident, rather than as a visitor. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Buttimer, Anne.
Geography and the Human Spirit. Baltimore:, Johns Hopkins UP,: 1997.
This history of geographical thought seeks ultimately to integrate human with physical geography and both with other humanities and sciences.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cadava, Eduardo.
Emerson and the Climates of History. Stanford, CA:, Stanford UP,: 1997.
Cadava disputes the portrayal of Emerson as an isolated individual by demonstrating the political and historical dimensions of his persistent references to weather and climate.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cahalan, James M.
"Edward Abbey, Appalachian Easterner."
Series: Western American Literature 31, no. 3 (1996): 233-53.
Discusses Edward Abbey's roots and the Appalachian influence in his writings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cain, Chelsea.
Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations. Seattle:, Seal Press,: 1996.
When Cain's mother is diagnosed with cancer, they travel together to Iowa where Cain was raised by her hippie parents in a commune.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Calderazzo, John.
"Fire in the Earth, Fire in the Soul: The Final Moments of Maurice and Katia Krafft."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4, no. 2 (1997): 71-77.
Essay about volcanoes and volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Callenbach, Ernest.
Bring back the buffalo! a sustainable future for America's Great Plains. Washington D.C:, Island Press,: 1996.
Callenbach envisions the restoration of large herds of bison to the Great Plains, and points out the ecological and economic benefits.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Callicott, J. Baird.
"Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine Leopold's Land Ethic?"
Series: Environmental Ethics 18 (1996): 353-73.
By examining the historical underpinnings of Leopold's land ethic, argues that it can still be valid,with some adjustments, in spite of recent scientific developments and theories suggested bywriters like Michael Soul. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Callicott, J. Baird and Fernando J. R. da Rocha, ed.
Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education. Albany:, SUNY P,: 1997.
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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost. New York:, Bedford Books of St. Martin's P,: 1996.
Accounts of the Plains Indians nineteenth century struggles with disease, depredation of game, and warfare; primary sources include winter counts, first person accounts, and legends. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Calvin, William H.
How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now. New York:, Basic Books,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Campanella, Thomas J.
"The Lost Creek."
Series: Terra Nova 1, no. 4 (1996): 113-119.
Exploring Brooklyn's backyards invites interest in a supposed "lost creek,"found in an historical search of Gerritsen's inlet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Campbell, SueEllen.
Bringing the Mountain Home. Tucson:, U of Arizona P,: 1996.
Twenty short essays and meditations on Campbell's excursions into and engagement with the outdoors, haunted by a vanished camp in the Rockies.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Camuto, Christopher.
Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains. New York:, Henry Holt,: 1997.
Cherokee culture, reintroduction of the red wolf, and Camuto's lyrical evocation of the place animate the southern Appalachians.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cantrill, James G. and Christine L. Oravec, ed.
The Symbolic Earth: Discourse and Our Creation of the Environment. Lexington:, UP of Kentucky,: 1996.
This anthology argues that discourse acts to create our environment, and discusses the problems resulting from the failure to understand the importance of that fact. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Canty, Kevin.
Into the Great Wide Open. New York:, Doubleday,: 1996.
Troubled teenage couple struggle in suburbia, part, and briefly reunite in Montana where they find no resolution to their problems.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Caras, Roger A.
A Perfect Harmony: The Intertwining Lives of Animals and Humans Throughout History. New York:, Simon & Schuster,: 1996.
Illustrates the impact of domesticated animals on the development of civilization, arguing that the domestication of animals was an essential factor in the development and progress of human culture.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Carter, S.
"A Note on Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway."
Series: Robert Frost Review 24, no. 52 (1997).
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" compared to Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Casey, Edward S.
The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. Berkeley:, U of California P,: 1997.
A philosphical exploration of how place has evolved into space in Western thought, beginning with mythological and religious creation myths, arriving finally at the modern theories of such thinkers as Bachelard, Foucault, Derrida, and Irrigiray.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cashin, Joan E., ed.
Our Common Affairs: Texts From Women in the Old South. Baltimore:, Johns Hopkins UP,: 1997.
More than 100 documents, most previously unpublished, about the families, friendships, work, race, public life, and secession of white Southern women living from 1811 to 1865. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cassuto, Leonard and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, ed.
Rereading Jack London. Stanford, CA:, Stanford UP,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Catton, Theodore.
Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska. Albuquerque:, U of New Mexico P,: 1997.
Catton explores the meanings of wilderness as established by law in Alaska: is park land designated to remain as "uninhabited" wilderness by humans the natural order of things when native peoples have used it for millennia?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Center of the American West, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region. New York:, Norton,: 1997.
This atlas uses photographs, essays, and charts to explore water distribution, nuclear waste, regional literature, and many other aspects of the changing American west.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chase, Alston.
In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology. St. Charles, IL:, Houghton Mifflin,: 1995.
Narrative evaluation of the dangerously polarized stances of industry and environmentalism calls for dialogue on a community level.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chawla, Louise.
In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory. Albany:, SUNY P,: 1994.
Chalwa considers the relationships between nature, memory, and childhood in the work of five contemporary American poets.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cheah, Pheng.
"Mattering."
Series: Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 26, no. 1 (1996): 108-39.
Relationship of nature to the human body and sexual difference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cherry-Garrard, Apsley.
The Worst Journey in the World. New York:, Carroll and Graf,: 1997.
New edition of Cherry-Garrard's famous 1922 account of Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ching, Barbara, ed.
Knowing your place : rural identity and cultural hierarchy. New York:, Routledge,: 1997.
Ching explores the concepts of class, ethnicity, gender, nationality, and race, and how they are influenced by rural identity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christensen, Laird.
"'Not Exactly Like Heaven': Spiritual and Ecological Imperialism in The Surrounded."
Series: Northwest Review 35, no. 3 (1997): 57-66.
Ecocritical examination of the impact of Christianity on Salish culture as portrayed in D'Arcy McNickle's 1936 novel. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christensn, Jon.
"War of Words."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4, no. 1 (1997): 95-102.
Looks at issues connected with the movement in western states to oppose federal environmental regulations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chubb, Kit.
The Avian Ark: Tales from a Wild-Bird Hospital. St. Paul:, Hungry Mind,: 1995.
Stories about birds at the Avian Care and Research Foundation.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clark, Nigel.
"Panic Ecology: Nature in the Age of Superconductivity."
Series: Theory, Culture and Society 14, no. 1 (1997): 77-96.
Treatment of nature in film adaptation of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cless, Downing.
"Eco-Theatre, USA: The Grassroots Is Greener."
Series: TDR: The Drama Review: A Journal of Performance Studies 40, no. 2 (1996): 79-102.
The relationship of theater and the environmental movement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clinebell, Howard.
Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth. Minneapolis:, Fortress P,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Coburn, Broughton.
Everest: Mountain Without Mercy. Washington, DC:, National Geographic,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cohen, Michael P.
"Postmodern Conditioning."
Series: Terra Nova, no. 1 (1996): 2101-106.
Suggestions for body training together with a postmodernist meditation on gender and wilderness. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cokinos, Christopher.
""Preposition, Dispersion," "Urine Particles LikeAngels," "Carnahan Cove."."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 4, no. 2 (1997): 107-110. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers.
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? -- A Scientific Detective Story. New York:, Dutton,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cole, Karen.
"Caroline Dormon: A Louisiana Writer and Her Environmental Ethic."
Series: Louisiana Literature: A Review of Literature and Humanities 14, no. 1 (1997): 64-74.
At Fault compared to Twelve Years a Slave and Bird Talk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cole, Karen.
" A Message from the Pine Woods of Central Louisiana: The Garden in Northrup, Chopin, and Dormon."
Series: Louisiana Literature: A Review of Literature and Humanities 14, no. 1 (1997): 64-74. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Coles, Katherine.
A History of the Garden; Poems. Reno:, U of Nevada P,: 1997.
Beautiful orchids on the cover lead to eight poems each in "History of the Bicycle" and "History of the Garden," celebrations of growth, weather and life.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Collett, Jonathan, Stephen Karakashian and David Ehrenfeld, (fwd.), ed.
Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts; A Project of the Rainforest Alliance. Washington, DC:, Island P,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Colquhon, Margaret and Axel Ewald.
New Eyes for Plants. Hudson, NY:, Anthroposophic P,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Colwell, F. S.
"Figures in a Promethean Landscape."
Series: Keats Shelley Journal 45 (1996): 118-31.
Percy Bysshe Shelley's treatment of landscape and relationship to the ideal in Prometheus Unbound. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Colwell, Frederic S.
"Figures in a Promethean Landscape."
Series: Keats Shelley Journal 45 (1996): 118-31. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Congleton, Roger D., ed.
The Political Economy of Environmental Protection: Analysis and Protection. Ann Arbor:, U of Michigan P,: 1996.
Aimed at academics interested in the politics of environmental regulation, this collection of articles and unpublished works of economists and political scientists examine in great technical detail environmental policies, current and future as consequences of political and economic factors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Conley, Verena Andermatt.
Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought. New York:, Routledge,: 1997.
Investigates ecological attitudes of various French poststructuralists and shows how ecological thought has been reshaped by the move away from humanism.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Connor, Steven.
"After Cultural Value: Ecology, Ethics, Aesthetics." In Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Turn of Postmodernism., edited by Gerhard Hoffmann, and Alfred Hornung, 1-12. Heidelberg, Germany:, ,: 1996.
Role of economic value in ecological, ethical and aesthetic considerations.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cook, Rufus.
"Poetry and Place: Wendell Berry's Ecology of Literature."
Series: The Centennial Review. 40, no. 3 (1996): 503-16.
Discusses Berry's understanding of the social and moral function of literature to pass on a sense of place. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cooper, Adrian.
Sacred Mountains: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Meanings. Bath:, The Bath Press,: 1997.
Eclectic blend of travelogue, folklore, interviews and photographs.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Corner, James and Alex S. Maclean.
Taking the Measures Across the American Landscape. :, Yale UP,: 1996. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cosgrove, Denis E.
Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Madison:, U of Wisconsin P,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Coskran, Kathleen and C. W. Truesdale, eds.
Tanzania on Tuesday: Writing by American Women Abroad. Minneapolis:, New Rivers P,: 1997.
An anthology of 47 travel narratives written by American women, with a focus on the details of day-to-day living these women encounter rather than on the physical features of the places they visit.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Coupland, N. and C. Justine.
"Bodies, Beaches and Burn-Times: 'Environmentalism' and Its Discursive Competitors."
Series: Discourse and Society 8, no. 1 (1997): 7-25.
Environmental movement's stylistics and rhetoric. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cowdrey, Albert E.
This Land, This South: An Environmental History. Lexington:, U of Kentucky P,: 1996.
Updated edition of 1983 book covering colonial survial to contemporary development.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Crandell, Gina.
Nature Pictorialized: The View in Landscape History. Baltimore:, Johns Hopkins UP,: 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Crawford, Colin.
Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek: Battling over Race, Class, and the Environment. Reading, MA:, Addison-Wesley,: 1996.
This account of the battle over the creation of a toxic waste disposal facility in Noxubee County, Mississippi, highlights the intersections of race, class, and a healthy environment.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Crimmel, Henry Hays, III.
"Perceptions of Wilderness, Woods and Water in American Literature: Thomas Morton, Anne Bradstreet, John Muir, and Ernest Hemingway." PH.D,, SUNY at Albany,: 1997.
Working from theories of place, landscape, and environmental perception, the dissertation explores responses to the wilderness and to the woods from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Works discussed are Morton's New England Canaan, Bradstreet's "Contemplations," Muir's Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin, Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Crow, C. L.
" Ishi and Jack London's Primitives." In Rereading Jack London., edited by L. Cassuto, Jeanne Campbell Reesman and Earle Labor, 46-54. Stanford, CA:, Stanford University P,: 1996.
Treatment of nature and the wild man in Jack London's novels.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cunningham, Lawrence S.
"Harvesting New Fruits: Merton's "Message to Poets."."
Series: The Merton Annual 9 (1996): 21-33.
Springboard address for the 1995 meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society which discusses the nature of language and seeing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Curry, Patrick.
Defending Middle Earth: Tolkien Myth and Modernity. Edinburgh:, Floris Books,: 1997.
Addresses themes of culture, society, politics, nature, ecology, spirituality and ethics in Tolkien's writing.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Curry, Patrick.
"Less Noise and More Green: Tolkien's Ideology for England."
Series: Mythlore 80 (1996): 126-38.
Focusing on The Lord of the Rings, the essay presents English culture, nature, and ethics as Tolkien's central concerns. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daly, Robert.
" "We Have Really No Country at All:" Hawthorne's Reoccupations of History."
Series: Arachne 3, no. 1 (1996): 66-88. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daniel, John.
"The Canyon."
Series: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 4, no. 1 (1997): 107-108. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daniels, Kate.
"Porch Sitting and Southern Poetry." In The Future of Southern Letters, edited by John Humphries, 61-71. New York:, Oxford U P,: 1996.
Treatment of nature and family in Southern American poetry.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Darlington, David.
The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert. New York:, Henry Holt & Co.,: 1996.
Exhaustive discussion of the many historical and contemporary uses that have been made of the Mojave, including chapters on recreation, nuclear testing and waste disposal, ranching, mining, and flora and fauna.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Davidson, Arnold. E.
"Negotiating Wilderness Tips." In Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works, edited by Sharon R. Wilson , Thomas B. Friedman and Shannon Hengen, 180-86. New York:, Modern Language Association of America,: 1996.
Pedagogical approach to Margaret Atwood's treatment of wilderness.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Davidson, Robyn.
Desert Places. New York:, Viking,: 1996.
The author, who traveled for months with the Rabari a nomadic desert people of northwestern India, recounts the difficulties they faced as well as her own physical and emotional struggles.