Research Catalog

Title

Heart of the land : essays on last great places / edited by Joseph Barbato and Lisa Weinerman ; with a foreword by Barry Lopez.

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barbato, Joseph, 1944-
• Weinerman, Lisa.

Description

296 pages : maps; 23 cm

Subject

• Natural history > United States
• Natural history
• Natural History
• natural sciences
• United States

Note

• Maps on lining paper.

Contents

Winter solstice at the Moab Slough (Colorado Plateau, Utah) / Terry Tempest Williams -- On Willow Creek (Texas Hill Country) / Rick Bass -- Wild again (The Adirondack Mountains, New York) / Bill McKibben -- Lake of the Stone Mother (Stillwater Marsh and Pyramid Lake, Nevada) / David James Duncan -- The Most patient of animals (Clinch Valley, Virginia) / Joel Achenbach -- On the Henry's Fork (Snake River, Idaho) / Thomas McGuane -- Of beaches, bays, and my boyhood with the Colonel (The Atlantic Barrier Islands, Virginia) / William W. Warner -- Last of the falling tide (The Florida Keys) / Carl Hiaasen -- Journey to the lost city of the jaguar (Río Bravo, Belize) / Gioconda Belli -- Natural history crashes, resurfaces (Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, California) / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Creations (Ría Lagartos and Ría Celestún, Yucatán, Mexico) / Linda Hogan -- Playing God on the lawns of the lord (Osage County, Oklahoma) / Teresa Jordan -- Reimagining Warner (Warner Valley, Oregon) / William Kittredge -- The Far north people (Northern Continental Divide, Montana) / James Welch -- The Beginner's mind (Gray Ranch, New Mexico) / Jim Harrison -- Big grass (Northern Tallgrass Prairie, North Dakota) / Louise Erdrich -- Back home again (Big Darby Creek, Ohio) / Ann Zwinger -- No space to waste (Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts) / Philip Caputo -- A Place of grace (Block Island, Rhode Island) / Jill Nelson -- Scrub, beautiful scrub (Lake Wales Ridge, Florida) / John Jerome -- On the trail of Walking James (Willapa Bay, Washington) / Pam Houston -- The lost land of Ka-Zar (Dos Palmas Oasis, California) / Annick Smith -- The Quetzal, the parakeet, and the jaguar (Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala) / Victor Perera -- Promises (ACE River Basin, South Carolina) / Dorothy Allison -- Upon this river (The San Pedro River, Arizona) / William Least Heat-Moon -- The Betrayal of Jack (The Yampa River, Colorado) / Charles Wilkinson -- Where the sky was born (Sian Ka'an, Quintana Roo, Mexico) / Homero Aridjis -- The Rock Islands (Palau, Micronesia) / Paul Theroux -- Great River (Peconic Bay, New York) / Peter Matthiessen -- The Memory place (Horse Lick Creek, Kentucky) / Barbara Kingsolver.

ISBN

• 0679435085
• 9780679435082

LCCN

94021150

OCLC

• ocm30703177
• 30703177
• SCSB-9605220

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library