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Author: Richard Jefferies Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
This enchanting book is intended to delight audiences with lush and accurate descriptions of the natural world hiding amongst the urban life of London. It was written by Richard Jefferies, an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction.
Author: Richard Jefferies Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
This enchanting book is intended to delight audiences with lush and accurate descriptions of the natural world hiding amongst the urban life of London. It was written by Richard Jefferies, an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction.
Author: Crawford Jackson Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 162
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This collection of poems written by an American poet, Crawford Jackson, uniquely focuses on nature - from its landscapes to its inhabitants. Some notable works inside this collection include the habits of birds from dawn to twilight and an ode written to Pilot Mountain.
Author: Petra Bartíková Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1637410387 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 14
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With delightful illustrations and fascinating facts aimed at young readers, this children’s book explores the natural world of riverbanks. Have you ever wondered how and why beavers build their dams, how otters live, or how frogs come to be? Now you can find out! This charming picture book teaches young children what it’s like to be an animal living on and in the water. With each turn of the page, this volume reveals dozens of adorable illustrations, educational captions, and vocabulary words. From beavers and otters to snakes, frogs, newts, and more, children will love learning all about these busy aquatic animals and the amazing lives they live! This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book
Author: Dan Louie Flores Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826320117 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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Personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the large expanse of land the Navajos once named the Horizontal Yellow.
Author: Jon Nelson Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1770706089 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 291
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Quetico Park in northwestern Ontario celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. Long-recognized as a gem among parks, Quetico contains some of the largest stands of old-growth red and white pine in Canada , as well as a diversity of fascinating lichens, carnivorous plants in specialized habitats. The author presents an insightful look into Quetico's natural history as he examines the adapations that have allowed moose, white-tailed deer, wolves and other mammals to survive. The human history of the park is also explored, beginning with the Objiwa living there when the area was designated as a park, followed by accounts of trappers, loggers, miners, park rangers, and poachers. Beginning with the retreat of the glaciers, the author combines his thorough research into Quetico's long and varied history with the threads of his own extensive involvement with the park. The result is a splendid tribute to a very special place.
Author: John Gatta Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199883106 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 304
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Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American writers have repeatedly perceived in nature something beyond itself-and beyond themselves. In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Whatever their theology, American writers have perennially construed the nonhuman world to be a source, in Rachel Carson's words, of "something that takes us out of ourselves." Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for "natural revelation" has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual history. And it shows how the imaginative challenge of "reading" landscapes has been influenced by biblical hermeneutics. Though focused on adaptations of Judeo-Christian religious traditions, it also samples Native American, African American, and Buddhist forms of ecospirituality. It begins with Colonial New England writers such Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards, re-examines pivotal figures such as Henry Thoreau and John Muir, and takes account of writings by Mary Austin, Rachel Carson, and many others along the way. The book concludes with an assessment of the "spiritual renaissance" underway in current environmental writing, as represented by five noteworthy poets and by authors such as Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Matthiessen, and Barry Lopez. This engaging study should appeal not only to students of literature, but also to those interested in ethics and environmental studies, religious studies, and American cultural history.
Author: Henri Frankfort Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226260119 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 512
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This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Frank's superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus.
Author: Richard Jefferies
Author: Richard Jefferies
Author: Crawford Jackson
Author: Petra Bartíková
Author: Richard Joseph Neutra
Author: Dan Louie Flores
Author: Jon Nelson
Author: New York (State). Department of Public Instruction
Author: John Gatta
Author: Boston Public Library. South End Branch
Author: Henri Frankfort