Rock, Water, Wild - An Alaskan Life

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Lord is a former Alaska Writer Laureate and a Pushcart Prize-winning author. Her previous acclaimed books include Fishcamp, Green Alaska, The Man Who Swam with Beavers, and Beluga Days. Klappentext Nancy Lord is Alaska¿s writer laureate and a Pushcart Prize¿winning author. Her previous acclaimed books include Fishcamp! Green Alaska! The Man Who Swam with Beavers! and Beluga Days. Zusammenfassung Takes readers on a journey among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsOn the Way      Being Peter      On Rereading Siddhartha      In the Giant's HandIn the Country      Words Honor Place      Zen Moose      Honk       Quiet Time      The Hidden Half       How to Bear Witness      Report from the Rookeries      The Farthest Island      A Border Runs Through It      The Conservationist as Wood Chopper      The Experiment      My Apologia      In Our TimeOut and Beyond      Magadan Luck      The Rings      Encounters with the Old Naturalist      A Bigger World      The Nature of Fakery      From an Old World Sea      Hope Is the Thing in Spring      I Met a Man Who Has Seen the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and This Is What He Told Me      Enough

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Lord
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780803240001
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4000-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales