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Reading the trail : exploring the literature and natural history of the California crest
- Title
- Reading the trail : exploring the literature and natural history of the California crest / Corey Lee Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, Corey Lee, 1972-
- Publication
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS283.C2 L49 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 241 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "John Muir, Mary Austin, and Gary Snyder are perhaps best known for their passionate connection to specific California regions - Muir's Sierra Nevada "Range of Light," Austin's southern "Land of Little Rain," and Snyder's "Kitkitdizze" region of the north. In Reading the Trail, ecocritic and outdoorsman Cory Lewis proposes a new way to read and interpret the classic works of these major nature writers and to bring their ideas into the discussion of ecological values and viable responses to the current environmental crisis. He combines a discussion of their work and ideas with an account of his own trail experiences as a hiker/backpacker and volunteer trail builder, proposing that such a field-based, interdisciplinary approach to literary study and outdoors experience can enrich our appreciation for the work of nature writers and for the purpose and importance of the environmental movement."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Environmental arts and humanities series
- Uniform Title
- Environmental arts and humanities series.
- Subject
- Austin, Mary, 1868-1934 > Knowledge and learning
- Muir, John, 1838-1914 > Knowledge and learning
- Snyder, Gary, 1930- > Knowledge and learning
- Austin, Mary, 1868-1934
- Muir, John, 1838-1914
- Snyder, Gary, 1930-
- American literature > California > History and criticism
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts > California
- Natural history > Pacific Crest Trail
- Environmental protection in literature
- Natural history > California
- Ecology in literature
- Nature in literature
- Learning and scholarship
- American literature
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts
- Intellectual life
- Literature
- Natural history
- Literatur
- Pacific Crest Trail > In literature
- California > Intellectual life
- California > In literature
- California
- United States > Pacific Crest Trail
- Kalifornien
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236) and index.
- Contents
- Readers and writers of the California crest trail -- Environmental education and the ecological crisis -- Mary Austin in the land of little rain -- Protecting arid lands with Austin's aesthetics -- John Muir on the range of light -- Field journaling with Muir in mind -- Gary Snyder at Kitkitdizze -- Putting Snyder's reinhabitory principles into practice -- In the footsteps of literary activists -- Education for cultural transformation.
- ISBN
- 0874176069
- 9780874176063
- 0874176050
- 9780874176056
- LCCN
- 2004023019
- OCLC
- ocm56617166
- 56617166
- SCSB-1358395
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library