Main Title |
Natural state : a literary anthology of California nature writing / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
University of California Press, |
Year Published |
1998 |
OCLC Number |
36916302 |
ISBN |
0520212088 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520212096 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Subjects |
Natural history--California ;
Nature
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ERAM |
QH105.C2N425 1998 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
06/06/2003 |
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Collation |
xii, 377 p. ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-373). |
Contents Notes |
Cahto myth: The creation -- Grampa Ramsey and the Great Canyon / Darryl Babe Wilson -- An elk hunt / Joaquin Miller -- Ramblings in Yosemite / Joseph LeConte -- Lake Tahoe / Mark Twain -- Climbing Matterhorn Peak / Jack Kerouac -- A mount for all seasons / Harold Gilliam -- Trumpets of light / Ann Zwinger -- The fourth dimension / David Rains Wallace -- Climbing Half Dome / Daniel Duane -- Into the valley / William H. Brewer -- The sea fogs / Robert Louis Stevenson -- On Sonoma Mountain / Jack London -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- Spirits of the valley / M.F.K. Fisher -- A reflection on white geese / Barry Lopez -- In condor country / David Darlington -- Winter's fog / David Mas Masumoto -- A vanishing land / Hildegarde Flanner -- Remnants / Wallace Stegner -- Desert walking / John Daniel -- Death Valley / Edward Abbey -- Overlooking Carrizo Gorge / Susan Zwinger -- The palms in our hands / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Gaviota coast trails / J. Smeaton Chase -- Where the mountains meet the sea / Lawrence Clark Powell -- Big Sur / Henry Miller -- The sundown sea / T.H. Watkins -- A certain moment / Russell Chatham -- Tapping the source / Kem Nunn -- Santa Rosa / Gretel Ehrlich -- Lost coast / John McKinney -- Continental drift / James D. Houston -- The San Andreas discrepancy / John McPhee -- A wind-storm in the forest / John Muir -- The Santa Ana / Joan Didion -- Nurslings of the sky / Mary Austin -- The storm / Jane Hollister Wheelwright -- After the fire / Margaret Millar -- Afterword: Coming into the watershed / Gary Snyder. |