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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 | |