The Nature of nature : new essays from America's finest writers on nature / edited by William H. Shore.
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New York :
Harcourt Brace,
©1994.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Al Gore
- Introduction / William H. Shore
- A carefully controlled experiment / Bill McKibben
- Natural disasters / Natalie Angier
- The explorer's journey : a report from the frontier / David G. Campbell
- The emus / Sy Montgomery
- A natural history of the plastic pink flamingo / Jennifer Price
- California condors / Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager
- Gujarat and Rajasthan / Peter Matthiessen
- Tapir's gourds and smelly toads : life in a little-known rain forest / David Rains Wallace
- The sweet smell of success / Thomas Eisner
- Millipide summers, silurian nights / Sue Hubbell
- Summer / Diane Ackerman
- Invitation to a rainy day / Janet Lembke
- The nature of nature / David E. Fisher
- Human nature / Peter J. Ferrato
- Of whales and men / Victor Perera
- Saving the whales / Robert Finch
- The Pacific coast of California / John A. Murray
- Logging / Ted Kerasote
- The human chauvinist within / Lawrence E. Joseph
- The creative spirit in art and literature / John Haines
- The color of a bird's egg / Bernd Heinrich
- Electron-microscopy : a closer look at nature / Gregory S. Paulson and Christine Davitt
- The mind's eye : from a novel / Edward Hoagland
- Drunk on honey : seeing ourselves in nature / Chet Raymo
- Kiss and tell / Judith Stone
- A gathering of birds / Karen Pryor
- Swims with frogs / Roger B. Swain
- Voyageurs / Scott Russell Sanders
- Empty at the heart of the world / Christopher Shaw.