Bright Stars, Dark Trees, Clear Water

by Grady, Wayne

• ISBN13: 9781567920192
• ISBN10: 1567920195
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: David R Godine Pub

Summary

This anthology gathers writers from the United States, Canada, and Europe to provide the best collection of North American nature writing ever put between covers. And by North, we really mean North - admittedly a vast canvas, but one covered splendidly by Wayne Grady, from Pehr Kalm's "Travels in North America" (1753) to Gretel Ehrlich's moving essay about her encounters with seals in the frozen wastelands of the Arctic Circle (1992). Included are pieces by well known and much beloved writers (Audubon, Seton, Mowat, Thoreau, Matthiessen, and Peterson among them), alongside lesser known texts by writers whose work will come as revelations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
From Travels in North America / 1753	p. 1
From A Journey to the Northern Ocean / 1792	p. 8
Swan River Country / 1813	p. 18
From The Labrador Journal / 1833	p. 24
From A Yankee in Canada / 1866	p. 30
From Diary in Canada / 1880	p. 35
Notes From My Old Diary / 1894	p. 41
The Springfield Fox / 1898	p. 49
The Stickeen River / 1904	p. 63
The Last Barrier / 1907	p. 70
The Halcyon in Canada / 1907	p. 78
The Deep Waters / 1911	p. 84
Summer Life in Banks Island / 1921	p. 89
Snow / 1922	p. 97
A Winter of Hardship / 1923	p. 119
Canada, 1924 / 1924	p. 123
All Things Both Great and Small / 1936	p. 134
Small Birds to the North / 1942	p. 148
Wild Swans in April / 1947	p. 159
Voluble Singer of the Tree-Tops / 1954	p. 167
From The Last of the Curlews / 1954	p. 173
Patterns of Local Movement / 1955	p. 180
Sea Cliffs of Cape St. Mary / 1955	p. 189
Place des Cygnes / 1956	p. 196
Geese / 1957	p. 204
Fur Countries and Forest Lakes / 1959	p. 211
The Mackenzie / 1961	p. 221
Ile a la Crosse / 1961	p. 230
From Never Cry Wolf / 1963	p. 238
The Island of Auks / 1965	p. 247
Banks Island / 1986	p. 256
From In Praise of Wolves / 1986	p. 265
Fire Dance / 1982	p. 276
The Grass and the Buffalo / 1990	p. 283
Stubborn Particulars of Place / 1991	p. 290
The Falcon / 1991	p. 297
Time on Ice / 1992	p. 302
Acknowledgments	p. 311
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