Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Murray, John A., 1954-
• Sierra Club

Description

xv, 426 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Voyages and travels > Literary collections
• American prose literature
• English prose literature
• Pacific Ocean > Literary collections
• Oceania > Literary collections

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