The 1956 novel was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave. Includes introduction by Kirk Douglas.

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

Book of photographs of cottonwood trees.

Landscape photographs, accompanied by Stafford's poetry.

Investigates the art of photography in general, from the point of view of this important landscape photographer.

Argues that "the nostalgia for paradise" in nineteenth-century American writing directed "the pattern and meaning of the journey" toward "self-discovery and self-renewal.

Problematizes ecofeminism's associations of women and nature and Donna Harraway's cyborg theory. Offers alternative construction of "women and nature as agents in a mutual struggle.

With the help of a friend's nine-year-old daughter, the author regains a measure of faith in humanity and rediscovers the wonder of nonhuman nature.

Anthology of American Indian fiction and nonfiction focused on the theme of transformation; twenty-three works by seventeen authors.

Florida conservationist Alvarez analyzes in detail the failure of government efforts to save the panther" -- Dave Foreman

The authors, who have been involved in a "trail-blazing proposal to restore old-growth forests...dissect current forest management and how it threatens biodiversity" -- Dave Foreman

Studies "the evolution in attitudes toward the environment in American politics and literature," leading to a reassessment of Thoreau, Muir, and Abbey as "literary artists."

A love story set in the southwestern desert. Melody Graulich's foreword and afterword essays discuss "how Austin's themes are timeless in setting and moral tone."

Considers "the degree to which Darwinian evolution and Spencerian philosophy" affected each author's "view of what the man/animal ambiguity means to the human condition."

Selections of accounts by Spanish, French, English, and American explorers who came before Lewis and Clark.

Excerpted passages from native songs and European encounters to postwar and contemporary writers. Each of the 75 entries is prefaced by a short introduction to the author. Foreword by Charles Johnson

Prairie fiction in Canada and the U.S. is exemplified both by references to physical space and by "the positioning of the female character within that space.

Collection of three novellas. Non-human nature figures prominently in stories centering on humans. Set in Montana, Michigan, New England

Argues that "ecofeminism should look toward...a more thoroughly substantiated historical account of alienation from women and nature" in defining "the relationship between humans and nature."

Offers a "complementary view" of the Edenic Myth in American literature, examining how "the walled garden paradoxically razes barriers," to clarify "our shared human condition."

The opening of Kroetsch's novel subverts fabulation into a more traditional travel/pioneer narrative of the Canadian Plains.

Skilled language and extraordinary descriptions" -- Publishers Weekly.

Selections from the "literature of the American wilderness," from William Byrd to John McPhee.

A historical novel about a 200-mile hunt for a Native American man "trying to preserve the ways of his ancestors against the forces of history."

A former Newsweek correspondent's biography, including information from Abbey's papers. -- Dave Foreman

Thoreau challenges himself epistemologically and geographically and emerges with a language and form to represent the confluence of nature and culture.

While it is touted that Native American literature is often about "finding home," Hogan's novel deals with defining "home" and "place" in a land "borrowed and broken" as oil fields.

Definitions, histories, and stories define 5,000 expressions that appear in historical texts and contemporary speech in the rural West.

A journalist and conservationist "has written the first comprehensive guidebook to river preservation," including information on politics, fundraising, and working with the media.

Suggests that Thoreau's "attempt to come to literary terms with the inhuman chaos of nature" presages "the great act of self-creation" found in Walden.

Demonstrates how "post-Civil War nature writers" helped "promulgate the ecological ethos" leading to an "American romantic tradition" of increasing importance to today's American values.

As environmentally concerned discourse becomes institutionalized, three possible problem areas emerge: Definitions of Literacy, Academic Capitalism, and Practice.

Compares 19th century nature writing such as that by Emerson, Muir, and George P. Marsh with 20th century writing such as that by Carson and Berry

Considers the intersecting nature of the three views of time Silko employs: circular, horizontal, and vertical, in moving "between myth and 'reality'" within the narratives.

Examines organic and mechanistic metaphors of the human relationship to the world. Includes discussions of deep ecology and ecofeminism.

Contributions from 92 writers, plus commentary.

In special issue on Native Americans.

Examines William Wordsworth's "The Brothers" as related to the life of the Ancient Mariner, specifically the natural versus the supernatural.

Argues for value of traditional rhetoric to environmental advocacy. By abandoning classical rhetoric, environmentalists have not fulfilled potential of Leopold's land ethic or Snyder's myth making.

"Cherishing a more innocent time and richer environment...Buckley vividly re-creates both the physical and social details" of California youth in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

"[E]xplores a series of environmentally responsive forms" by Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, Silko, Carson, Berry, Cather, and others to develop theoretical and historical frameworks for understanding environmental representation.

Features Gary Paul Nabhan, Terry Tempest Williams, John Haines, Gary Snyder, Dave Foreman, Max Oelschlaeger, Christopher Manes, Bill McKibben, Kirkpatrick Sales, others.

Argues that "the creative literary devices regional authors employ" should "assume a greater relevance and importance" in the investigation of regional land use patterns.

Essays and stories about wolves and the human response to them, by authors ranging from Aldo Leopold to Rick Bass.

Discusses her connection with and inspiration from the landscape of Saskatchewan.

Kroetsch's use of character to reclaim Canada from being a "bad" -- "poorly understood, inaccurately and inadequately named" (204) -- land, which is then empowering.

Session titles include "The News," "Animal Talk," "Discourse and Values," "Enviro-Political Communication," "Policy and Public Planning Discourse," "The Ecofeminist Challenge," and "Public Education."

Memoir of a day-long spiritual journey in the Ozark forest.

The crux of Emerson's linguistic theory is distinguished by his belief that "language structures thought" and that it must adapt to nature's "fluxionally radiating patterns."

Ed. Marjorie Harris Carr. Anthology of work by Florida naturalist Archie Carr. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson.

Uses various political realities surrounding the Glen Canyon Dam to illuminate Edward Abbey's novel.

History of Michigan's Pere Marquette River, from prehistory through its "death" to its recovery.

Asserts "the role of water as a privileged sign" in Southwest literature and politics, focusing on the works of Mary Austin, John Steinbeck, and Edward Abbey.

Stories by Rick Bass, Lee Merrill Byrd, Diane DeSanders, Mary K. Flatten, Reginald McKnight, Larry McMurtry, Tomas Rivera, and others.

Argues the Puritans' wilderness was less a "convenient metaphor for spiritual self-examination" tha a "conscious creation," important for "the moral influence it exerted."

Special section.

History of Anasazi, Sinagua, Mogollon, Hohokam, and Salado cultures and guide to prehistoric ruins.

Argues that literature, as a way of understanding the world, is enriched by science. Includes brief commentary on sample poems, including some of her own.

Two biologists "give an overview of the history, biology, and current human uses of the greater Yellowstone region," analyze management problems, and suggest policy changes. -- Dave Foreman

Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams.

Extracts from both Western and non-Western traditions, covering "the enormous range of discussions and debates" about the natural world, with comprehensive introductions for each section.

Selected non-fiction and poetry from the magazine Northern Lights. Includes Gretel Ehrlich, Edward Abbey, Richard Nelson, Frederick Turner, Marilynne Robinson, others.

Institutions sometimes attack new thought, sometimes protect new thinkers. Includes a bibliography on environmental history.

Norton Anthologies marginalizes Jeffers through textual selection and prose notes so that his presence acts to highlight mainstream canonical works.

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

Evocation of New England's landscape by the horticulture research archivist of the Arnold Arboretum.

Critical essays on Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Joseph Wood Krutch, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, John McPhee, and Gary Snyder.

Author argues that Westinghouse, GE, and Monsanto knew about the harmful effects of PCBs since the 1930s, but concealed this information from the public.

Reflections on critical issues and student responses to an undergraduate seminar on literature and the environment.

A semiotic view of nature that takes up the medieval terminology natura naturans and natura naturata to advance a "revolution in contemporary philosophy." Bibliography.

Argues that much ecofeminist theory "is...not in accord with feminist goals;" to remain "viable" it must "strengthen its connection to social and ecological activism."

Paperback edition of his 1992 book, adding an essay on Wallace Stegner and "The Limits of Paradise."

Author compares his recent white water raft trip on the Tuolumne with one he took in 1978. Also, argues against damming one of the Tuolumne's tributataries.

Studies a range of writing by "Canada's most interesting and experimental Western writers."

In a special issue on Native Americans.

"A modern day road guide for following the five major emigrant trails in Utah, with historical background and excerpts from actual pioneer journals."

A coffee table book set apart by "images of industrial devastation of our forests and the deep wisdom of its essays." -- Dave Foreman

Special issue: fourteen essays dedicatied to the theme of art and nature.

"[T]his book offers an ecosystem-based watershed restoration initiative," including damage assessment, scientific underpinnings, and policy proposals.

Conservation leaders like Roush, Watkins, Baca and Speth look at the property rights movement and its effect on public land conservation. -- Dave Foreman

"This British anthology looks at using a large scale ecological approach for solving conservation problems." -- Dave Foreman

Non-fiction account of the process of Ehrlich's recovery, both physical and spiritual, after she is struck by lightning on her Wyoming ranch.

Includes a long essay on the natural history of Iowa's plants, discussions of origins and natural regions, and an annotated checklist.

Examines the correspondence between "popular ecological consciousness in the 1960s" and that era's poetry, noting "the interdependence of man and nature" in Ammons, Ginsberg, and Snyder.

The collection is divided into stories of origins, animal transformations, and trickster figures, and a section of essays by contemporary indigenous writers.

Introduction by John Elder; illustrations by Thomas W. Nason.

Investigates "a new science": "a theoretical biology that uses a computer to simulate the emergence and evolution of life."

"Spans the history of human-plant interactions to examine how wild plants are used to meet medicinal, nutritional, and other human needs."

Considers "how five particular women writers have constructed women and nature" in their work, and "the implications in their texts for contemporary environmentalism."

Photographs and commentary on world's threatened wilderness refuges.

Essays that take a critical look at nature writing in America; includes Abbey, Dillard, Eiseley, Krutch, Lopez, and Thoreau. Bibliography.

"Fromme tells the story of the Smoky Mountains and their friends" in this expanded edition of a 1966 book. -- Dave Foreman

Contrasts recent books by Dave Foreman and Murray Bookchin.

All human positions are antropocentric, including Leopold's supposedly biocentric stance, in which aesthetics plays a further humanizing role.

Four experts on population growth discuss one of the planet's most serious and complicated problems.

Videotape (35 minutes) that explores the possibilities of building a coalition, with 25 speakers. Order from Greta Gaard ($12.00).

Employs "a series of interpretive frameworks" to explore "what made a single popular scientific essay compelling to its author and audience."

Coyote story about his quest to find his lost voice and the need to know our past.

"This lyrical account of growing up in a family of hunters in mid-twentieth century Albuquerque expresses a deep empathy for man's place in nature."

A psychologist "diagnoses modern humans as suffering from post-traumatic stress...caused by a society out of touch with nature." -- Dave Foreman

Favors gaining access to and influence within existing institutions despite Michael Branch's concerns about the corrupting effects of institutionalization on environmental discourse.

Considers the historical roots of environmentalism, increasing professionalism, and the rise of community-based groups to argue that environmental concerns have been central to a wide range of American social movements.

Topics range from aboriginal human-wildlife relationships to consumptive uses of wildlife and wildlife law and policy.

Introduces composition students to ecological issues and traces the history of the environmental movement in America from 1850 through 1993.

Life story of pioneering Wisconsin wildlife biologist and author.

Hamilton traces Bruce Babbitt's "failed" tenure as Interior Secretary. He's reneged on promises, she argues, and has lost the respect of environmentalists.

Praises the 1964 Wilderness Act, but argues that eighty million more American acres need protection. Whole ecosytems, especially, need protection.

25 stories about rural areas and small towns of California's Central Valley.

Nineteen essays "on the landscape, literature, and life in the Great Central Valley of California."

Twenty-five short stories set in California's Central Valley.

Follows the "development of the frontier heroine in American literature" as the frontier moves west, from the 1800s through "the agrarian novels of the 1900s."

Compilation of conference papers from a 1990 conference at Hofstra University.

Critical analysis of the representation of animals in Silence of the Lambs as they are constructed according to anthropocentric fears and desires.

These photos and essays combine "history, geography, direct observation, climatology, botany, oral history, archaeology, agricultural science, literature, geology, photography, and even a bit of astronomy."

A review of three positions on Thoreau's construction of nature.

Six essayists, including Tom Regan and Louis P. Pojman, address such issues as animal rights, feminism, economic injustice, and racial prejudice.

In a special issue on Native Americans.

Annual journal, with essays, bibliography, and news of contemporary nature writers and readers. Order from J. Parker Huber, 35 Western Avenue, Brattleboro, VT 05301.

Explores the relationship of the "Hump-Backed Flute Player" section to the overall work.

Poem about metamorphosis.

Poem about herons by a river.

Photographs and essays on salmon.

Examines global population and development policy in relation to gender issues.

Topics include human rights and environmental degradation, environmental racism, social justice environmentalism. Covers a wide range of economic and geographic contexts.

Poem. Explores the consciousness of an anteater.

Poem. Meditation seeking the awareness of owls.

This Renaissance classic's "detailed examinations, observations, and explanations offer insight...into... cultural and historical contexts that would otherwise have been lost."

A study of indigenous myth (Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Northwest, Haida, ancient Celtic, ancient Greek) and its sociological foundations.

Argues for "a radical revision" in how we "understand Thoreau's view of himself and the world" through a "comprehensive view" of his epistemological influences.

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

Argues environmentalists have ignored basic principles of science, economics, and human nature.

Defines the Great Plains and Great Plains literature/studies as inherently postmodern. Postmodernism as a function of the physical place as embodied by Robert Kroetsch.

Posits that representations of the Great Plains are deeply influenced by cultures from different/other geospheres.

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

"Here, experts in science, economics, and law discuss the major land management issues of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem." -- Dave Foreman

Zwinger talks about the resurgent interest in nature writing, contemporary nature writers, her career, and her own work.

Kroetsch's work as both questioning the reality of his narrative and as developing a Canadian identity of place.

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

Proposes a redefinition of the American frontier as a multiple array of points of "cultural contact, circumscribed by a particular physical terrain in the process of change because of the forms that contact takes."

"[A] classic history...of the opening of western trails, as told in the words of the immigrants themselves." Revised and updated.

Autobiographical reflections about the intersections of gender, nature, culture, and work, marginal spaces in which the self can emerge and transform.

Postmodern essay on articles about his work. Includes bio.

From the earliest known written memoir to recent reminiscences by prominent writers.

Essay revolving around gardening.

Examines how ecofeminist narratives "recover alternative histories," exploring "selfhood...in relationship, rather than in conflict, with external nature," using "Habermas's model of theraputic critique."

Argues that the authors use their experiences, often suppressed by the dominant culture, to create new stories reflecting their multicultural identities.

Ehrlich reconfigures the image of land as an agentless female object by emphasizing erotic conversation between humans and land as a part of an overall postmodern critique.

"Essays connected by the theme of water: the joy it brings, the myths that surround it, and its sacredness." -- Orion

Philosophical reflections on nature and life in northeastern Minnesota.

Presents an "overdue" reconsideration of Josselyn's work; though he was discredited for "reporting supernatural phenomena," these actually reflected "fabulous English preconceptions of the New World."

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

An anthology of "accounts about Death Valley that appeared in the popular press over the years."

Collection of sixteen essays. Considers spiritual, economic, technical aspects of modern American farming, Amish farming, agricultural education. Advocates small farms.

Twelve stories.

In a special issue on Native Americans.

Portrait of North American climate, landscape, flora and fauna, and human cultures from the Wisconsin glaciation 18,000 years ago to European contact.

Argues the "the Green Movement" is "neither ideologically nor... sociologically homogeneous," but "consists of two distinct movements," one "politics oriented" and the other "experience oriented."

Explores the "re-emergence in spirituality, psychology, cross-cultural studies, ecofeminism and the new physics" of the "Feminine Devine," a "primary image of human spiritual growth."

Argues that while landscape has shaped the American character, "the American character has [also] shaped the American landscape," especially in our literary "appreciation for mountains."

Traces the theological, intellectual, and cultural roots of human ideas about nature from ancient times to the present, including Western and non-Western traditions.

Critiques the separation of intellectual work from social practice and offers a South African perspective on Northern theory.

Contrasts Western totalizing discourses and exploitations with the concepts of interconnectedness and decentered self, from a Buddhist standpoint.

Animals are the most important part of nature; social and environmental problems are linked to humans' inability to come to terms with animals. Bibliography.

Ed. with introd. Selections from climbers such as Bartram, Thoreau, and Muir.

Argues that Zanita (1871), the first novel set in Yosemite Valley, features an implicitly ecofeminist outlook.

Features women mountaineers such as Gertrude Bell and Dorothy Pilley.

Essays by leading authorities define the poles of the debate and explore common ground beyond the polarized rhetoric.

Argues that "mystical experiences in the wild" shaped the "thinking and behavior" of Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, and Gary Snyder.

Establishes a political framework for discussion of Indian water rights.

Through her narrative structure in My Antonia, Cather creates a text reinforcing both the traditional frontier myth and raising questions in the mind of the reader.

Crisis in Adirondack Park.

Argues that "[r]adical environmentalism arises out of an inability or unwillingness of [Modernist] reformists to examine the root causes of rampant environmental degradation.

Memoir exploring "why we hunt and our relationship with the animals we pursue" as the author evolves from small-game hunter to big-game guide.

Collection of "Mother Earth Sacred Wisdom from all parts of our planet." Resource section.

The author "looks at the Gila through the lenses of hydrology, anthropolgy, archaeology, history, and biology," assessing damage and offering restoration ideas." -- Dave Foreman

A conservation biology text "for advanced undergraduates and early graduate students." -- Dave Foreman

Includes sections on critical theory/ Marxism, economics, deep and social ecology, ecofeminism, environmental justice, spiritual ecology, science. Index.

A study of the ecological foundations of Northern European myth.

Partly autobiographical novel about a black homesteader.

Novel about a black homesteader.

A collection of writings by "a prolific and popular nature writer, a close disciple of John Muir, and 'Father of Rocky Mountain National Park.'" Ed. John Dotson.

Collective history of the American West. Sections on heritage, expansion, transformation, and interpretation. Maps, tables, and color plates.

Examines the effects of Lawrence's notion of place in his novels.

Landscape as cultural practice.

Interviews of E. Cook-Lynn, Ivan Doig, Gretel Ehrlich, Richard Ford, M. Gloss, William Kittredge, Thomas McGuane, Amy Tan and others.

Novel; "a chilling mystery . . . as well as an ecological education for the reader new to the trials of Latin America" -- Abigail Davis in Bloomsbury Review.

Account of Long Branch Farm, part of the Cincinnati Nature Center.

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

Delineation of Cather's use of the historically real Pavelka farmstead as embodiment of Czech land-based peasant culture in the US West.

Published in A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin

Critiques literary ecocriticism and nature writing/environmental literature using post-structuralist literary theory, ecofeminist philosophy, and cultural studies; examples from fiction, poetry, and prose.

Aimed at providing the best nature writing of the previous 12 months; includes poetry, fiction, essays and journal writing.

An anthology of writings about wolves by Leopold, Mowat, Lopez, Bass, Hoagland, Hasselstrom and others.

"A collaboration of contemporary artists, scientists, and humanists all exploring and creating their interpretations of today's Loess Hills."

Presents two polarized views of the environment in debate form: environmental plenty and human progress vs. potentially catastrophic ecological degradation. Bibliography.

Two naturalists alternate research on environmental education with stories of their own children and children in Native American cultures.

Examines several motifs used in short stories, such as the physical descent and shift in tempo used in London's "To Build a Fire."

Contemporary Native writers like Welch, Silko, and Seals work to restore community and ecology through "neo-orality," or contemporary written orality.

"[L]ively essays on the development and selling of the West for the rapidly evolving tourist market".

A leading conservation biologist "translate[s] the principles and techniques of conservation biology into practical land use management." -- Dave Foreman

Interviews about writing in the Pacific Northwest including artists on the spectrum from Norman McClean to Ursula LeGuin.

William Rueckert's "Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism," which coined the term ecocriticism, lacks theoretical grounding, as does the science of ecology.

"There are no solutions for the systematic causes of ecocrisis, at least in democratic societies, apart from religious narrative" (5).

Prose and verse poems in response to a long prairie winter.

In special issue on Native Americans.

Examines the concept of "space" in Emily Carr's writing and paintings.

Palmer "discusses the values of natural rivers, current threats to rivers, continuing hydropower threats, water quality, instream flows, riparian habitat, ecosystems management and watershed Protection." -- Dave Foreman

Looks at how the Hollins College "writing environment" freed women writers "from the demand for conformity," enabling them to search "for their own voices."

Nature Writers/Writing Special Issue. Critical essays from Bartram through Thoreau to Abbey and Lopez (and others); nature writing by contemporary writers.

Argues that "the work of several nature writers" around the turn of the century "was primarily responsible for the first great era of environmental reform."

"Leading scientists describe responses of plants and animals to previous climate changes...human activities" and other environmental changes. -- Dave Foreman

Intro. David Petersen: original drawings by Abbey.

71 previously unpublished poems; artwork by Michael McCurdy.

Journal of living by Puget sound.

In a special issue on Native Americans.

Collection of essays by "indiginous peoples" from eighteen different countries on environmental topics, seeking to counter the "imbalance" in international environmental reporting.

"A primer of Arctic ecology."

Over 100 articles from foresters, ecologists, and resource planners about ongoing forest ecosystem restoration projects around the world.

Disputes contemporary criticism, arguing for "a strand of American prose from Thoreau to Mailer" which sees in "wilderness a source of practical and creative values."

History of the emergence of the deadly Ebola virus, which Preston argues is "the natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere."

On the natural history of domestic cats, their history among humans, and on the physics of their most famous advantage -- the ability to survive long falls.

Studies how "nature poets" Bly, Snyder, and Berry have "attempted to develop a 'platform' from which to speak for their respective constituencies" in their poetry.

Contends that the importance of "the now-obsolete tenets of natural history" has been "overlooked or discounted" in reading Bertram, Jefferson, and Crevecoeur.

Looks at how "the natural environment" works to form the "implicit expository progression" from alienation to "integration with the human and natural worlds."

Letters from a woman who visited many popular areas of the park in its early days. Editorial comments by William G,. Slaughter. Photographs.

Identifies experts and areas in need of more research; lists studies and research programs for women and high school girls. The 40-page guide is available for $10.50 (plus $1.50 shipping) from Nina S. Roberts, 9703 47th Place, College Park, MD 20740-1470.

Introduction to a new interdisciplinary degree-granting program at UC Davis which combines science and literature. Includes degree requirements and syllabus for a core course.

Argues that "the rhetoric of ecofeminism ...is a fusion of substantive and stylistic features" which "deconstruct patriachal structures" and reconstruct...structures of cooperation and liberation."

33 essays by women about outdoor sports. Includes essays from Alaska, Lake Superior, and California, on such topics as paddling, glaciering, and rollerblading.

"Rolston argues forcefully that what we ought to conserve depends on what we ought to value. The inherent values in nature answer our philosophical questions." -- Dave Foreman

The use and importance of the built environment, including the domestic, in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Series. Writing is considered an alternate built environment.

Study "attempts to correct" some "misconceptions" about the Indian Notebooks by "reconstructing their chronology" and examining their relation to "the myths Thoreau composed in Walden."

Essays on preservation of culture in Fiji, the World Trade Center bombing, the Gulf War, ecology and the men's movement, biotechnology, Green cultural criticism; response to scarcity-based environmentalist arguments.

Textbook for college writing course with readings about people's relationships to the natural world; includes discussion questions and writing assignments.

In a special issue on Native Americans.

Outlines aspects and genres of oral and written literature that can enhance understanding of Native American literature and the English curriculum. Emphasizes oral literature, life histories and autobiographies.

A challenge to the social ecology basis of Janet Biehl's Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics, specifically on issues of domination, politics, culture/nature, science, spirituality, and ethics.

Argues that relativism is built into Rorty's account of narrative and metaphor from the outset, and that this, in turn, is isomorphic with a form of ecological irresponsibility.

Presents an "ethnographic and literary investigation of ritual and oral traditions," which is deemed essential for a thorough understanding of Momaday's novel.

Ecocriticism must constantly redefine, revise, and rearticulate ecological concepts and concerns.

A personal and critical essay, recalling outdoor experiences that developed Schmidt's environmental ethic; recommends interdisciplinary outdoor experiential curriculum for children.

Ecocritical reading, particularly of the last chapter, "Hyacinth Drift," that shows how Rawlings found spiritual renewal in following the St. John River's current when she was lost.

A mystery set in the Black Rock Desert.

Woman photographer faces polar bears and Arctic terrain in Northern Manitoba.

Selcraig profiles Domingo Gonzalez, a political activist responsible for shaping public opinion about dangerous (read toxic) health conditions along the Texas/Mexico border.

In a special issue on the Gaia hypothesis.

A master gardener, artist and writer "has created a step-by-step guide to reconstructing the natural landscape of Iowa and the Upper Midwest."

Essays and photographs, including contributions from Diane Ackerman, Bill McKibben, Sue Hubbell, and others. Intro. Vice President Al Gore. Proceeds benefit hunger relief.

Considers the effects of fast-paced, orchestrated, and thematic TV representations of nonhuman nature on our ability to experience nature's "gradualness" and "surrounding thoughtlessness."

Novel by Canadian writer.

"Life and death stories of a generation of Teton mountaineers."

A reappraisal of sexual metaphors we apply to landscape.

By describing an "oil-spill drill" -- an imaginary staging of a large oil spill -- Slater probes into techniques oil companies use to protect themselves from attack.

"Acknowledges and commemorates the thirtieth anniversary...of the Wilderness Act and explores the meaning of "wilderness" in the Unites States during the 1990s."

Exploration of the influence agriculture has had on history.

Essays address the conflict between perception and reality of nature.

Follows the hierarchical progression of Cooper's animals, from representatives of nature to metaphoric comparison with man, symbolic plot devices, and the basis of character names.

Reflections on tourism and literature while reviewing two memoir/travel books about the Yellowstone region: Walking Down the Wild by Gary Ferguson and We Aspired, a climbing book by Pete Sinclair.

Explores a firefighter's connection with a mountain's landscape.

Draws on five recent popular anthologies of nature writing to establish characteristics of the tradition. From them, proposes four principles of nature writing.

A "novel of the West" which "vividly evokes the beauty and majesty of the western landscape."

Disclosive discourse, the language of engagement between humans and nature, can encourage an appreciation of nature. Includes specific discussions of Leopold, Faulkner, and Walden.

Syllabus, requirements and commentary on a four-week intensive course designed for first-year undergraduates.

Compares Thoreau's The Maine Woods to Springer's Forest Life and Forest Trees, suggesting multiple connections including Thoreau's use of language.

Examines an implicit ecological critique of development in the old West in "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," in relation to Crane's travel experience in Texas.

Includes Charles Bowden, Don Graham, Rolondo Hinojosa-Smith, Tom Miller, Luci Tapahonso, Frederick Turner, Stewart Udall, Peter Wild, Ann Zinger, others.

Ed. Bradley P. Dean. Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan. Intro. Robert D. Richardson, Jr. Illus. Abigail Rorer.

Photography and eight essays.

Contemporary ecocritics differ from traditional ecocritics by recognizing the conceptual limitations of language construction. This difference is explored in criticism of Thoreau.

Essays by Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Peter Mathiessen, Thich Nhat Hanh, John Seed, Terry Tempest Williams, others.

In special issue on Native Americans.

Critique of "third world tourism" and ecocide in Hawai'i.

Collection of poetry by Native Hawaiian sovereigntist, with notes of historical events and glossary.

"Explore the inexplicable with maverick archeologist Trento, from the Taos 'hum' to the 'Winter Solstice Petroglyphs' of LA."

A collection of new writings which take up the question of place and the relationship between landscape and writing. Explores nature and culture from a rice diversity of style, gender, ethnicity, birthplace and literary genre. Photographs by Bob Peterson.

Available from Island Press, Box 7, Covelo, CA 95428 (1-800-828-1302).

A text book anthology of essays by major writers on a variety of topics. Includes an introduction to ethical theory and chapter reviews." -- Dave Foreman

Textbook of expository writing on contemporary controversies representing a wide range of opinions by scientists, policy makers, activists, journalists, and philosophers; includes questions and writing activities. Glossary and bibliography.

Looks at Stevens as a modernist nature poet, whose work "reimagines the Nature/Culture dialectic and seeks to reinstate its forgotten term -- Nature."

An analysis of the shortcomings of Paul Ehrlich's rhetoric in The Population Bomb and elsewhere, with responses to the analysis and further response by Waddell.

Examine's Wharton's use of the Persephone myth and pomegranate seeds "to figure both the woman artist and her life" in four of her novels.

Writings about the environment for composition classes. 63 essays, 22 articles and editorials, 6 short stories, and 7 poems. Includes Carson, Leopold, Thoreau, others.

Walker summarizes the geographic differences between Australia and the US Plains and describes the subsequently different impact of history and exploration. This creates greater freedom from history in the Australian literary imagination.

Traces the development of ecological writing through history. Includes Alice Walker, Aldous Huxley, Lewis Mumford, Engles, Thoreau, the Shelleys, Bacon, Plato, others.

Wallach chronicles a kayak trip he and a companion take down Utah's isolated and shallow Escalante River.

Series of mostly original essays considering questions and implications of ecofeminism, as well as asking "Why is the environment a feminist issue?"

Reflections on ethical issues related to travel in wilderness areas, punctuated by narrative "case studies" based on the authors' backcountry travels.

Studies texts of seven twentieth-century writers "that emulate the achievement of Thoreau to advance their personal histories in support of social and environmental reform."

Discusses the federalization of the Northern Plains built landscape and the cultural/ideologic function of these buildings.

Conversations initiated by Jonathan White aboard the schooner Crusader as part of the work of the Resource Institute. Includes conversations with thinkers with long-standing environmental concerns. Bibliography.

Eighteen essays address human interactions and collisions with the environment; deals primarily with American West; includes essays about New York City, Africa. Ecofeminist perspective.

Kingsolver, Williams, Tapahonso, Houston, Sojourner, Cummins and others tell stories from the Southwest.

About 20 percent remains of the original ecosystem that is still Florida's most unique -- but that, too, is just about gone.

Personal essays illustrating Williams' committment to the natural world, including her comment that "Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home."

An "ecofantasy" in which suburban teenagers and an ambitious mountaineer learn to love the wilderness.

"One of the great scientific autobiographies ever written."

Syllabus and commentary on a computer based course about nature writing.

Poems focusing on the Pacific Northwest.

Four essays that argue "against the view of the West as a simple cultural invention" by demonstrating the active role of the natural environment.

Compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project Administration: overview of Montana with suggested tours. Foreword by William Kittredge.

A natural resources professor "analyzes the controversy over the Spotted Owl and demonstrates the shortcomings of existing management institutions and natural resource policies." -- Dave Foreman

Argues that Thoreau's works can be read as "geographical descriptions of nineteenth-century New England," with a primary focus on his use of geographical metaphor.

An update of a book about the history of public lands policy, management and use.

Classic nature writing, introduced and edited by Ann Zwinger.

Short "tale of what it is to be a nature writer."