Collections of essays about nature including John Muir
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FROM: "Cathy MacArthur" <[removed]@new.rr.com>
REC'D: 3/21/02, 5:20 PM
Does anyone know of a collection of essays about nature that include John Muir. (This is for a book discussion group.)
Thanks.
Cathy MacArthur
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/25/02, 2:05 PM
Two relatively recent ones, both specialized. (I can find some much
older ones from early 20th century, but assume that wouldn't help
for a current book group.)
Title:
The mountain world :
a literary journey /
Author(s):
McNamee, Gregory,
Publication:
San Francisco : Sierra Club Books,
Year:
2000
Description:
xix, 262 p. ; p., 25 cm.
Language:
English
TOC:
Mount Katahdin / Henry David Thoreau -- Mountain people /
Martin Frobisher -- Front range / Walt Whitman,
Isabella Lucy Bird -- Sacred geography / Navajo text --
Songs for the mountain world / Akimel O'Odham,
Chiricahua Apache, Cheyenne, Southern Paiute, Wind River
Shoshone, Tewa, Tohono O'Odham, and
Paiute texts -- Sierra Nevada / John Muir, Mary Austin --
Mount Saint Helens / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Popocatepetl / Fray López De Gomara -- Climbing to the
middle of the world / Aimé Felix Tschiffely -- Andes
/ Kechua and Spanish folk songs, Simón Bolívar, Ida
Pfeiffer, Charles Darwin -- The Tepuis of Guyana / Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle -- Mountains of Africa / Ashanti,
Wachagga, Giyuku, Xan, and !Kung folktales, Pliny the
Elder -- The mountains of the moon / Abu El Fadel -- The
ascent of Kilimanjaro / H.H. Johnston -- Mysteries
of the highlands / John Barrow -- Table Mountain / Joshua
Penny -- High Japan / Japanese myths, Dogen
Kigen, Basho, Nanao Sakaki, Asuka Gasei, Yoshinori, Ota
Dokan, Kayano Shigeru -- Sakhalin / Anton
Chekhov, Maritime Chukchee folktale -- Storm / V.K. Arseniev
-- Mountains of China / Han Shan, Li Po --
Mountains of Mongolia / Nikolai Prejevalsky -- Himalayas /
Susan Rijnhart, Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur,
Sir Martin Conway, Hindu myth, Sikkimese hymn, Photius, Mark
Twain -- Frontiers / Richard Francis
Burton, T.E. Lawrence -- Central Asia / Kirghiz epic, Sven
Hedin -- Anatolia / Frederick Burnaby, Bob
Shacochis -- Zion / Hebrew text -- Hellas / Archilochos,
Sappho, Alkman, Pausanias -- Mountains of water
and mystery / Russian folk poems, Romanian and Bulgarian
folktales -- Highlands / Dorothy Wordsworth,
William Butler Yeats, Scottish folk songs, Alastair
Borthwick -- Mountains of Europe / John Ruskin --
Volcano / Jon Thorlaksson -- Vesuvius, Etna and the
Apennines / Pliny the Younger, Carlo Levi, Franciscan
text -- Sierra / Antonio Machado -- Alps / Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sir Leslie
Stephen, Mrs. H.W. Cole, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway
-- Mountain dreaming / Australian aboriginal
myths -- Mount Cook / Freda Du Faur -- Mount Kare / Isabella
Tree -- Pele / Hawaiian myth -- The
mountains of Erewhon / Samuel Butler -- Cataclysm / Bertolt
Brecht -- The hollow-men and the bitter-rose /
Ren’e Daumal -- The ends of the earth / Estonian folktale,
Sir John Mandeville.
Standard No:
ISBN: 0871568985; LCCN: 99-46907
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:
Mountaineering -- Literary collections.
Mountain life -- Literary collections.
Mountains -- Literary collections.
Note(s):
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-262).
Title:
Alaska stories :
tales from the wild frontier /
Author(s):
Miller, John,; 1959- ; Miller, Kirsten,; 1963-
Publication:
San Francisco : Chronicle Books,
Year:
1995
Description:
x, 182 p. ; p., 23 cm.
Language:
English
TOC:
The encircled river / John McPhee -- Journal, 1917 / V.
Swanson -- Tracks across Alaska / Alastair Scott --
The King Islanders / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- Eskimo folk
tales / Iraahuruk -- The young men and the sea /
Larry Gallagher -- Alaska and its resources / William H.
Dall -- Dead in the water / Dana Stabenow -- An
odyssey of the North / Jack London -- A pioneer woman in
Alaska / Emily Craig Romig -- Interviews /
Alaskans -- Geese / Margaret Murie -- In camp at Glacier Bay
/ John Muir -- Distances / Robert Coles.
Standard No:
ISBN: 0811806758 (pbk.); LCCN: 94-15574
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:
Frontier and pioneer life -- Literary collections.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska.
American literature -- Alaska.
Geographic:
Alaska -- Social life and customs.
Alaska -- Literary collections.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraires // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: "Cathy MacArthur" <[removed]@new.rr.com>
REC'D: 3/26/02, 5:17 PM
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Cathy MacArthur
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