Uncommon Wealth : Essays on Virginia's Wild Places

by NATURE CONSERVANCY

• ISBN13: 9781560449157
• ISBN10: 1560449152
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Falcon

Summary

Collection of original essays from 20 of Virginias finest authors about 20 different wild places

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
About The Nature Conservancy	viii
Foreword	ix
Introduction	xi
Jennifer Ackerman
New Ground
Barriers	3	(8)
Christopher Camuto
A Bright and Shining Swamp	11	(14)
Ellen Dudley
Fist-Cloud at Laurel Fork	25	(11)
Jack Wennerstrom
Christmas with Eagles: A Holi-day in Four Parts	36	(17)
Judith Kahn
Into the Great Dismal	53	(13)
Stefan Bechtel
Loss and Recompense at the Pinnacle	66	(9)
Garvey Winegar
Home Ground
Forest Children	75	(8)
Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Escape to North River Gorge	83	(8)
Deane Winegar
Seasons of Life	91	(7)
Paul Clancy
The Forest Returns	98	(11)
Jim Crawford
A River Good Enough: On the Merits of Modest Water	109	(15)
Donovan Webster
I Write from a Mountain Farm	124	(6)
Richard Cartwright Austin
To Love a Place	130	(8)
Chris Bolgiano
Prime Mountain Real Estate: ``Best Views in the World''	138	(17)
Eric Seaborg
Roots
A Mountain Retrospective: Revisiting Southwest Virginia	155	(11)
Curtis J. Badger
Only in the Land of Goshen	166	(11)
Katie Letcher Lyle
Wild in the City: The Urban James River	177	(10)
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
Where Rare Plants Dwell	187	(8)
Mary Reid Barrow
In the Blood	195	(10)
Walter Nicklin
And This Way the Water Comes Down at the Gorge	205	(12)
Janet Lembke
About the Editor	217