American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau / edited by Bill McKibben ; foreword by Al Gore.
Contributor(s): McKibben, Bill
| Gore, Albert.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam, c2008General Notes: "A special publication of the Library of America.".Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xxxi, 1047 p., [80] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781598530209 (trade ed.); 9781598530247 (slipcase ed.).Subject(s): Environmentalism | Environmental literature | Ecology in literature | Nature conservation | EcocriticismDDC classification: 333.72 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 333.72 Am353 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003745056 |
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"A special publication of the Library of America."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From Journals / Henry David Thoreau -- From leaves of grass / Walt Whitman -- About trees / J. Sterling Morton -- Prosperity / Gifford Pinchot -- Indigenous and the metropolitan / Benton MacKaye -- Birds that are New Yorkers / Donald Culross Peattie -- From A Sand county almanac / Aldo Leopold -- Sootfall and fallout / E.B. White -- From Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- From The Economics of coming spaceship Earth / Kenneth E. Boulding -- From Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick -- Beginnings / Denis Hayes -- From Only one Earth / Friends of the Earth -- From Energy strategy, the road not taken? / Amory B. Lovins -- From Love Canal, my story / Lois Marie Gibbs -- Wrath of grapes boycott speech / César Chávez -- Summer day / Mary Oliver -- From The last Panda / George B. Schaller -- Multicultural approach to ecopsychology / Carl Anthony and Renée Soule -- From The legacy of Luna / Julia Butterfly Hill -- Thoreau problem / Rebecca Solnit -- Chronology.
Gathers in one volume the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries.
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