A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from North America and Australia

by Tredinnick, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780803294578
• ISBN10: 0803294573
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

A Place on Earthis an anthology of nature writing, some of it classic, some of it new, from Australia and North America. It brings together essays by many of the finest nature writers of our time on both continents, and it introduces some rich new voices to this literature of place.Each essay brings to life a place that is special--sacred, even--to its author. This is a book of places--wild, lived in, grazed, fished in, explored, lost, and remembered. It is a lyric essay, in twenty-six voices, about what it means to live well on the land. It is a book of miraculous, ordinary places and of prose in which those places are alive. Here you will find desert and plateau, river and ice, city and farm, forest and grassland, man and woman, horse and bear, coyote and salmon, lyrebird and eagle, wind and rain, outback and seashore, sandstone and granite, she-oak and cottonwood, highland and lowland, harbor and wetland, ancient and modern, earth and sky, birth and death--just a few of the many compass points, the contour lines, the latitudes and longitudes of home.

Author Biography

Mark Tredinnick grew up in Epping, New South Wales, and now lives with his wife and family in the sandstone country near Katoomba, west of Sydney, Australia. He is coediting an anthology of Australian desert literature and writing a book-length lyric essay on Australia.

Table of Contents

About the contributors	9	(8)
Acknowledgments	17	(4)
Editor's note on usage	21	(4)
Belonging to Here: An Introduction	25	(24)
Mark Tredinnick
Symptoms of Place	49	(6)
Barbara Blackman
Beneath Capital Hill: The Unconformities of Place and Self	55	(10)
John Cameron
The Centre	65	(4)
Charmian Clift
The Real World	69	(12)
James Galvin
Cooper Dreaming	81	(10)
Tom Griffiths
Pieces of a Place	91	(10)
John Haines
Ultramarine	101	(6)
Ashley Hay
The Red Steer at Rat Bay	107	(6)
Pete Hay
Creations	113	(14)
Linda Hogan
Reimagining Warner	127	(8)
William Kittredge
Wind Ensemble	135	(12)
Laurie Kutchins
Tangibles	147	(12)
William J Lines
The Language of Animals	159	(8)
Barry Lopez
The South Fork	167	(10)
Peter Matthiessen
Home Ground	177	(4)
Michael McCoy
Island of the Rain Bear	181	(12)
Richard Nelson
A Rogaine	193	(6)
Patrice Newell
Synecdoche and the Trout	199	(8)
David Quammen
My Places	207	(8)
Eric Rolls
Buckeye	215	(6)
Scott Russell Sanders
The Right Place for Love	221	(10)
Carolyn Servid
Kitkitdizze: A Node in the Net	231	(8)
Gary Snyder
A Matter of Scale	239	(6)
John Tallmadge
Falling Water	245	(14)
Mark Tredinnick
Labor	259	(6)
Terry Tempest Williams
Landing	265
Tim Winton