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21. Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick by Esther F. Lanigan | |
Paperback: 269
Pages
(1997-02-01)
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22. I-Mary: A Biography of Mary Austin by Augusta Fink | |
Hardcover: 310
Pages
(1983-04)
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23. Dancing Ghosts: Native American And Christian Syncretism In Mary Austin'S Work (Western Literature Series) by Mark T. Hoyer | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(1998-09-01)
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24. Exploring Lost Borders: Critical Essays on Mary Austin (Western Literature Series) | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(1999-08-15)
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25. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories (Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy) by Deborah Paes De Barros | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2004-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Emory Elliott, University Professor, University of California, Riverside, Director, Center for Ideas & Society. Customer Reviews (1)
An Engaging and Wonderful Read |
26. Reading The Trail: Exploring The Literature And Natural History Of The California Crest (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series) by Corey Lee Lewis | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2005-02-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The literary work of Muir, Austin, and Snyder reflects intimate and passionate knowledge of their chosen regions. Their activist efforts contributed to the preservation of wilderness areas and national parks in the ecosystems they lived in and wrote about. In Reading the Trail, Lewis combines a lucid, perceptive discussion of their work and ideas with an engaging, closely observed account of his own trail experiences as a hiker/backpacker and volunteer trail builder, thereby achieving a new and deeper appreciation of their writing and values. He proposes that such a combination of literary study and experiential projects allows teachers to enrich the understanding of students and lay readers to find new insights into the work of nature writers and the purpose and importance of the environmental movement. The book will be inspiring reading for both teachers of literature and natural science, and for lovers of the outdoors seeking new ways to explore the natural world. |
27. The Wild and the Domestic : Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature by Barney Nelson | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(2000-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this provocative work, Nelson focuses on the thought and work ofmajor environmentalists Mary Austin, John Muir, and Edward Abbey. AsNelson says, "Authors of animal stories appearing in both Americanliterature and environmental anti-grazing rhetoric havemelodramatically cast domestic animals as female Eden-wreckers andwild animals as male noble savages." This dichotomy influencedpolitical decisions that were destructive to Mary Austin's own ruralcommunity, located along the eastern flank of California's SierraNevada. The influence of Austin on environmental thinker John Muir hasbeen suggested but not investigated in real depth until now. Nelson's reading of Edward Abbey's work through the lens of Austin'stheories and experiences reveals her surprising influence on anenvironmentalist held in disfavor by the ecofeminist critics. Nelson'sscholarly explorations in this beautifully written and sometimesstartling volume are vitally enhanced by several lively and thoughtfulpersonal essays concerning her own life on the land. Customer Reviews (3)
effulgent effluvia of earth The glory continues with the author adding a raucously noble essay on her own life. Nelson also contributes a fine essay on Ed Abbey's reading and suggested usage of Mary Austin's desert book. At last, I mention the political concerns churned up by Nelson's hearty ploughing. Much about land management, grazing rights, and habitat change finds sensible reappraisal. I do not have the expertise or experience to evaluate the suggestions of the author on this matter, but I find her suggestion of interest, that the government policies based on the research programs of some scientists are quite possibly informed by an erring sense of healthy land use and a mistaken foundational origin for the data they interpret. Overall, this book of essays wafts thoughtful chips into the air with relatively little theoretical marsh.
environmentalists ruin the west
Domestic vs. Wild -- some new ideas that INCLUDE women |
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