Life in the Tar Seeps - A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea

Finding an intricate web of life in the tar seeps of the Great Salt Lake

Sommario

CONTENTS
Wayfinding
composition : decomposition
I. Death Traps
Great Salt Lake
II. Stuck
American West
III. Unspiraling
North America
The Big Here
Earth
Field Notes

Info autore

Gretchen Ernster Henderson writes across environmental arts, cultural histories, and integrative sciences. Her recent essays have appeared in Ecotone, Ploughshares, and the Kenyon Review, with co-authored articles in Nature Sustainability and Conservation Biology. Her four previous books include Ugliness: A Cultural History and Galerie de Difformité, cross-pollinating genres and arts and translated across five languages. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin and has also taught at Georgetown University, MIT, and the University of Utah, where she was the 2018–19 Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities. Born and raised in California, she is the 2023 Aldo and Estella Leopold Writer in Residence in New Mexico and lives in Arizona.

Riassunto

Finding an intricate web of life in the tar seeps of the Great Salt Lake

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gretchen Ernster Henderson
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.04.2023
• EAN: 9781595342737
• ISBN: 978-1-59534-273-7
• Pagine: 230
• Illustrazioni: color photos throughout
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Science / Environmental Science