Good read -- Essays.|Noel Perrin/ Forever virgin: The American view of America.|Howard Ensign Evans/ Remembering pioneer naturalists.|Ann Zwinger/ A world of infinite variety.|Edward Hoagland/ In praise of John Muir.|C. John Burk/ A view of a marsh: vitality in nature.|Italo Calvino/ Man, the sky, and the elephant: On Pliny's Natural history.|Leslie Marmon Silko/ Landscape, history and the Pueblo imagination.|Keith H.Basso/ "Stalking with Stories":Names, places, and moral narratives among the western Apaches.|Richard K. Nelson/ The gifts.|Robert Finch/ North Beach journal.|John Haines/ Shadows and vistas.|Edward O. Wilson/ Storm over the Amazon.|Anne Dillard/ Total eclipse.|Gretel Ehrlich/ Spring.|Ralph Beer/ Wind upon the waters.|Conger Beasley, Jr./ The return of beaver to the Missouri River.|Ted Williams/ Rivertops.|John Milton/ The writer's West.|Barry Lopez/ The stone horse.|Jim Harrison/ Passacaglia on getting lost.|Joyce Carol Oates/ Against nature.|John Fowles/ The green man.|John Rodman/ The dolphin papers.
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