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| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J Kent Minichiello; Anthony W White |
| OCLC Number: | 1285577600 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 436 pages : illustrations) |
| Contents: | Preface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Design for Nature WritingChapter 3. A Map of VirginiaChapter 4. The First Bison! The Last Bison!Chapter 5. The First Expedition to the Blue Ridge MountainsChapter 6. The Natural History of the New World - Three ViewsChapter 7. Notes on the State of VirginiaChapter 8. Ant-Hill TownChapter 9. Annalostan Island and The Great Falls of the PotomacChapter 10. Views of the Blue Ridge and the Shenandoah ValleyChapter 11. The Blackwater ChronicleChapter 12. Crossing the Cumberland MountainsChapter 13. Spring at the CapitalChapter 14. The White House by Moonlight, Birds Migrating at Midnight, and By Broad Potomac's ShoreChapter 15. Pine WoodsChapter 16. Picturesque America: The Chickahominy and Weyer's CaveChapter 17. Where Now Will You Look For Birds? And Avifauna Columbiana Chapter 18. Season of "Eclipse" in Zoo Fuck Pond and Our Doorstep SparrowChapter 19. Cobb's Island Chapter 20. The Life Worth LivingChapter 21. Outdoors and Indoors Chapter 22. A Trip to the Dismal SwampChapter 23. Birds and Magnolia BogsChapter 24. Color in Virginia and The National ForestsChapter 25. Revels IslandChapter 26. Fernald's Ecstasy! Fernald's Chagrin!Chapter 27. The BarbariansChapter 28. Flood Tide and Chincoteague: A National Wildlife RefugeChapter 29. Spring in WashingtonChapter 30. The Chesapeake MarshesChapter 31. May at MonticelloChapter 32. C&O CanalChapter 33. City in the WoodsChapter 34. Fire TowerChapter 35. Down the Coast to AssateagueChapter 36. Heaven and Earth in Jest and The PresentChapter 37. The Search for Betula UberChapter 38. Beautiful SwimmerChapter 39. Barrier Island BirdsChapter 40. The Passion of Eels and Potomac: The Nation's Sewage PlantChapter 41. Then and Now: Thirty-Five Years in Suburbia Chapter 42. Make Room and They Will Come and Leaving Earth to Save ItPermissions Index |
| Responsibility: | edited by J. Kent Minichiello and Anthony W. White. |
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The 436-page book has something for everyone-birders, hikers, hunters, green activists, and local historians included... A handy introduction to some of the genre's luminaries-... Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, Roger Tory Peterson, John Burroughs, Tom Horton, William Warner... If you're a local outdoors lover, you can't help but take pride in knowing that these nature-writing aces have done some of their finest reporting on this region... Read their selections and you'll not only be entertained, you'll have a clearer idea of the natural assets of this region-how they've been savored and squandered and rejuvenated and protected. -- Kevin McManus Washington Post This region of ours is a jewel. If there be any doubt, read these authors. Their voices will fuel not only many future journeys but also explorations of the mind... The readings brim with lyrical prose and memorable lines. -- Stan Shetler Audubon Naturalist News An extraordinary book that looks through time and space-and through changing perceptions-at the nature of the mid-Atlantic region... The book makes accessible a tremendous and eclectic range of fine regional writing-not only selections from lesser-known authors, but also lesser-known pieces of the many famous writers included. Baltimore Sun Read more...
