Richard J Nevle, Steven Nightingale

The Paradise Notebooks

90 Miles Across the Sierra Nevada
Illustrator: Lanas, Mattias

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Considers twenty-one elements of the Sierra Nevada-from granite to aspen to a species of butterfly-in pairs of essays. The first looks at the natural history and science of each element; the second treats the element through poetry and the lens of mysticism. Interwoven are vignettes from a 2017 backpacking trip"--Provided by publisher

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781501762697
• ISBN-10: 1501762699
• Artikelnr.: 62159392

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Nevle is Deputy Director of the Earth Systems Program at Stanford University and the author of numerous scientific articles. Steven Nightingale teaches poetry in schools and universities in Nevada and California. He is the author of ten books, including the short fiction collection The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Setting Out
Part I: Stone, Water, Fire
Granite
Obsidian
Roof Pendants
Brokenness
Clouds
Snow
Glacier
River
Forest
Fire
Part II: Range of Life
Bighorn
Aspen
Paintbrush
Whitebark Pine and Clark's Nutcracker
Pileated Woodpecker
Belding's Ground Squirrel
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog
Western Tanager
Sierra Nevada Parnassian
Wolf Lichen
Epilogue