Preface | p. 13 |
Introduction | p. 15 |
Introduction to the 1990 Norton Book of Nature Writing | p. 21 |
from The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | p. 34 |
from Letters from an American Farmer | p. 52 |
from Sketches of Eighteenth century America | p. 59 |
from Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, ... | p. 65 |
from American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States | p. 77 |
from The Journal of a Naturalist | p. 82 |
from David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America, 1784-1812 | p. 86 |
from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth | p. 90 |
from The Journals of Lewis and Clark | p. 96 |
from Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles | p. 105 |
from Ornithological Biography | p. 117 |
The Natural World | p. 122 |
from The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare | p. 123 |
The Lost Woods | p. 436 |
A Slight Sound at Evening | p. 440 |
The Ancient People and the Newly Come | p. 449 |
A Family of Landscapes | p. 453 |
from A River Runs Through It | p. 458 |
from The Log from the Sea of Cortez | p. 466 |
from The Heart of the Hunter | p. 469 |
The Snakes Are About | p. 475 |
The Marginal World | p. 480 |
The Judgment of the Birds | p. 486 |
from Black Boy | p. 494 |
The Lively Petes of Parque Vargas | p. 497 |
Glen Canyon Submersus | p. 504 |
Coda: Wilderness Letter | p. 514 |
from A Land | p. 520 |
from The Inland Island | p. 526 |
Death in the Open | p. 533 |
The World's Biggest Membrane | p. 536 |
The Common Night | p. 539 |
The Dovekie and the Ocean Sunfish | p. 541 |
Rain and the Rhinoceros | p. 546 |
Mouse | p. 554 |
from Never Cry Wolf | p. 561 |
Moments and Journeys | p. 566 |
Silver Snaffles | p. 573 |
Of Red-Tailed Hawks and Black-Tailed Gnatcatchers | p. 577 |
Beginnings | p. 587 |
From The Tree | p. 592 |
The Island of Auks | p. 606 |
The Serpents of Paradise | p. 614 |
The Great American Desert | p. 620 |
from The Tree Where Man Was Born | p. 628 |
from The Wind Birds | p. 642 |
Pig Tales | p. 644 |
A Very Warm Mountain | p. 651 |
The Bird of Paradise | p. 658 |
Ancient Forests of the Far West | p. 663 |
Under the Snow | p. 684 |
Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion | p. 691 |
Thoughts on Returning to the City After Five Months on a Mountain Where the Wolves Howled | p. 704 |
Owning It All | p. 707 |
An Entrance to the Woods | p. 718 |
The Making of a Marginal Farm | p. 728 |
The Way to Rainy Mountain | p. 737 |
from A Country Year | p. 743 |
Timescape with Signpost | p. 750 |
The Silence | p. 754 |
The Beginner's Mind | p. 760 |
In Salmon's Water | p. 767 |
Under Old Nell's Skirt | p. 773 |
Atop the Mound | p. 778 |
From The Songlines | p. 782 |
A City Person Encountering Nature | p. 787 |
From Living at the End of Time | p. 791 |
The Gifts | p. 797 |
The Circle Is the Way to See | p. 811 |
Of Moose and a Moose Hunter | p. 819 |
The Big Snow | p. 833 |
Death of a Hornet | p. 842 |
Nighthawks Fly in Thunderstorms | p. 845 |
Moose | p. 850 |
Am I Blue? | p. 863 |
Heaven and Earth in Jest | p. 868 |
Living Like Weasels | p. 876 |
Total Eclipse | p. 880 |
Cutover | p. 892 |
from Arctic Dreams | p. 901 |
The American Geographies | p. 914 |
Buckeye | p. 924 |
The Human Element | p. 930 |
Wolf, Eagle, Bear: An Alaska Notebook | p. 937 |
Friends, Foes, and Working Animals | p. 944 |
The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas | p. 950 |
Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah | p. 960 |
The Bats | p. 967 |
And the Coyotes Will Lift a Leg | p. 972 |
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall | p. 980 |
A Word in Favor of Rootlessness | p. 984 |
Strawberries Under Ice | p. 991 |
Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination | p. 1003 |
Alien Soil | p. 1015 |
Northwest Passage | p. 1022 |
The Third Eye of the Lizard | p. 1028 |
Calling Animals by Name | p. 1034 |
from The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country | p. 1039 |
Big Grass | p. 1043 |
Planting Seeds | p. 1048 |
Gila Wilderness | p. 1052 |
Black Women and the Wilderness | p. 1063 |
High Tide in Tucson | p. 1068 |
Weeds Are Us | p. 1079 |
The Clan of One-Breasted Women | p. 1091 |
Baldwins | p. 1099 |
The Ecology of Magic | p. 1102 |
from The Ninemile Wolves | p. 1114 |
from The End of Nature | p. 1120 |
Built by Fire | p. 1131 |
Forest Beloved | p. 1133 |
Permissions | p. 1137 |
Index | p. 1147 |
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