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A Thousand leagues of blue : the Sierra Club book of the Pacific : a literary voyage / edited by John A. Murray.
- Title
- A Thousand leagues of blue : the Sierra Club book of the Pacific : a literary voyage / edited by John A. Murray.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1993.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Request in advance | PS648 .P27T58 1993 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 426 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Literary collections
- Literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-424).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Life on the rocks : the Galápagos / Annie Dillard -- Life and death in Galápagos / Barry Lopez -- Easter Island / Captain James Cook -- The Marguesas Islands / Herman Melville -- Tahiti / Charles Darwin -- Under the mountain wall / Peter Matthiessen -- The bird of paradise / Edward O. Wilson -- Mauki / Jack London -- The orangutan of Borneo / Alfred Russel Wallace -- On the reef, darkly / Kenneth Brower -- To islands on wings and wind / Andrew Mitchell -- The reef / Edward Abbey -- South Pacific folklore : the shark and the snake, The hen and her chickens, The origin of poisoned arrows, How Tagaro made the sea, The woman and the eel / collected by R.H. Coddington -- The icebergs of Antarctica / John Murray -- Admiralty Bay / David Campbell -- A visit to the great volcanoes / Mark Twain -- Decline of a lagoon / John Culliney -- Symbols in the rock / Frank Stewart -- Sacred darkness / Pam Frierson -- Hawaii / Rick Bass -- Poems : Offerings, and, Passing through, passing on / Peggy Shumaker -- Legend of Iwa : traditional Hawaii folk story / Henry Fornander -- Japan's wild nature / David Rains Wallace -- Hunting the big bear / Charles Sheldon -- How various large and small pieces of California move around from one place to another / James D. Houston -- The Pacific coast of California / John A. Murray.
- ISBN
- 0871564521
- LCCN
- ^^^93023196^
- OCLC
- 28800991
- SCSB-11643612
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library