Nature matrix : new and selected essays /
Pyle, Robert Michael,
Nature matrix : new and selected essays / Robert Michael Pyle. - First paperback edition. - xxii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Secrets of the talking leaf -- A mineral king esthetic -- A different day on beetle rock -- Joys of the suburban jungle -- Eden in a vacant lot: special places, species, and kids in the neighborhood of life -- Nature matrix -- The blind teaching the blind: the academic as naturalist, or not -- It was all about the beavers: John Jacob Astor I and the rape of the West -- Swift and underwing, boulderfield and bog: Nabokov's individuating details -- Real wilderness: extinct in the wild -- The extinction of experience revisited: everybody's ditch still matters -- The semiotics of Sasquatch -- Epistemology of the big year -- Bright lights, big city is a classic nature book!
A selection of nature-themed essays by the biologist author of Magdalena Mountain explores such subjects as his early years as a national park ranger, the "wilderness" of modern times and the life of Vladimir Nabokov.
1640092765 9781640092761
2019017872
Pyle, Robert Michael--Prose.
Natural history.
QH45.2 / .P95 2020
Nature matrix : new and selected essays / Robert Michael Pyle. - First paperback edition. - xxii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Secrets of the talking leaf -- A mineral king esthetic -- A different day on beetle rock -- Joys of the suburban jungle -- Eden in a vacant lot: special places, species, and kids in the neighborhood of life -- Nature matrix -- The blind teaching the blind: the academic as naturalist, or not -- It was all about the beavers: John Jacob Astor I and the rape of the West -- Swift and underwing, boulderfield and bog: Nabokov's individuating details -- Real wilderness: extinct in the wild -- The extinction of experience revisited: everybody's ditch still matters -- The semiotics of Sasquatch -- Epistemology of the big year -- Bright lights, big city is a classic nature book!
A selection of nature-themed essays by the biologist author of Magdalena Mountain explores such subjects as his early years as a national park ranger, the "wilderness" of modern times and the life of Vladimir Nabokov.
1640092765 9781640092761
2019017872
Pyle, Robert Michael--Prose.
Natural history.
QH45.2 / .P95 2020