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Singing stone : a natural history of the Escalante Canyons

Title
Singing stone : a natural history of the Escalante Canyons / Thomas Lowe Fleischner.
Author
Fleischner, Thomas Lowe, 1954-
Publication
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1999.

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TextUse in library QH105.U8 F58 1999Off-site

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Description
xix, 212 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
Summary
Annotation
Subject
  • Natural history > Utah > Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
  • Natural history
  • Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Utah)
  • Utah > Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-202) and index.
Contents
Prologue: From the Oxbow -- The Terrain of Delight -- Tales of Deep Time -- The Soul of Stone -- Upwarping and Downcutting -- The Work of a River -- The Texture of Life -- The Grace of Animals -- The Green Gift -- Mapping Life -- How Snakes Kiss -- Walking Upright -- Chipping Stone -- With Blade of Chert -- Here Comes Europe -- In the Promised Land -- "More Beauty Than I Can Bear" -- Home on the Range? -- A Reluctant Path Toward Policy -- Resisting Change -- Meanwhile, Back at the Fence -- Hungry for Fun -- The Concrete Curtain -- Forever Wild? -- The Governor in the Gym -- The Fun Boom -- Epilogue: The Evening Light Can Be Touched.
ISBN
  • 0874806194
  • 9780874806199
  • 087480616X
  • 9780874806168
LCCN
99037578
OCLC
  • ocm41606342
  • 41606342
  • SCSB-929245
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library