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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Introduction to the 1990 Norton Book of Nature Writing | |
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from The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | |
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from Letters from an American Farmer | |
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from Sketches of Eighteenth century America | |
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from Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, ... | |
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from American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States | |
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from The Journal of a Naturalist | |
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from David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America, 1784-1812 | |
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from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth | |
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from The Journals of Lewis and Clark | |
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from Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles | |
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from Ornithological Biography | |
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The Natural World | |
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from The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare | |
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The Lost Woods | |
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A Slight Sound at Evening | |
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The Ancient People and the Newly Come | |
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A Family of Landscapes | |
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from A River Runs Through It | |
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from The Log from the Sea of Cortez | |
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from The Heart of the Hunter | |
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The Snakes Are About | |
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The Marginal World | |
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The Judgment of the Birds | |
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from Black Boy | |
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The Lively Petes of Parque Vargas | |
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Glen Canyon Submersus | |
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Coda: Wilderness Letter | |
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from A Land | |
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from The Inland Island | |
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Death in the Open | |
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The World's Biggest Membrane | |
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The Common Night | |
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The Dovekie and the Ocean Sunfish | |
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Rain and the Rhinoceros | |
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Mouse | |
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from Never Cry Wolf | |
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Moments and Journeys | |
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Silver Snaffles | |
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Of Red-Tailed Hawks and Black-Tailed Gnatcatchers | |
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Beginnings | |
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From The Tree | |
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The Island of Auks | |
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The Serpents of Paradise | |
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The Great American Desert | |
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from The Tree Where Man Was Born | |
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from The Wind Birds | |
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Pig Tales | |
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A Very Warm Mountain | |
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The Bird of Paradise | |
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Ancient Forests of the Far West | |
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Under the Snow | |
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Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion | |
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Thoughts on Returning to the City After Five Months on a Mountain Where the Wolves Howled | |
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Owning It All | |
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An Entrance to the Woods | |
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The Making of a Marginal Farm | |
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The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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from A Country Year | |
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Timescape with Signpost | |
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The Silence | |
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The Beginner's Mind | |
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In Salmon's Water | |
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Under Old Nell's Skirt | |
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Atop the Mound | |
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From The Songlines | |
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A City Person Encountering Nature | |
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From Living at the End of Time | |
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The Gifts | |
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The Circle Is the Way to See | |
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Of Moose and a Moose Hunter | |
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The Big Snow | |
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Death of a Hornet | |
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Nighthawks Fly in Thunderstorms | |
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Moose | |
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Am I Blue? | |
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Heaven and Earth in Jest | |
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Living Like Weasels | |
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Total Eclipse | |
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Cutover | |
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from Arctic Dreams | |
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The American Geographies | |
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Buckeye | |
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The Human Element | |
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Wolf, Eagle, Bear: An Alaska Notebook | |
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Friends, Foes, and Working Animals | |
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The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas | |
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Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah | |
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The Bats | |
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And the Coyotes Will Lift a Leg | |
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Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall | |
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A Word in Favor of Rootlessness | |
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Strawberries Under Ice | |
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Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination | |
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Alien Soil | |
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Northwest Passage | |
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The Third Eye of the Lizard | |
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Calling Animals by Name | |
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from The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country | |
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Big Grass | |
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Planting Seeds | |
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Gila Wilderness | |
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Black Women and the Wilderness | |
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High Tide in Tucson | |
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Weeds Are Us | |
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The Clan of One-Breasted Women | |
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Baldwins | |
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The Ecology of Magic | |
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from The Ninemile Wolves | |
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from The End of Nature | |
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Built by Fire | |
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Forest Beloved | |
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Permissions | |
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Index | |