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Nature matrix : new and selected essays / Robert Michael Pyle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xxii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1640092765
  • 9781640092761
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH45.2 .P95 2020
Contents:
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!
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Pacific Northwest Connections Collection SB455.5 .P95 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800182057
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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.

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