TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pyle,Robert Michael
TI  - Nature matrix: new and selected essays 
SN  - 1640092765
AV  - QH45.2 .P95 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Berkeley, California
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Pyle, Robert Michael
KW  - Natural history
N1  - 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!
N2  - 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
ER  -