Encounters with nature : essays / by Paul Shepard ; edited by Florence R. Shepard
- Bib ID:
- 1568245
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Shepard, Paul, 1925-
- Description:
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- Washington, D.C. : Island Press [for] Shearwater Books, c1999
- xxix, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1559635290 (cloth)
- Summary:
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"Encounters with Nature brings together twenty-one essays written over a span of four decades."--BOOK JACKET. "Encounters with Nature gives the reader a deeper understanding of Paul Shepard's thought, bringing his intellectual development into closer focus and providing a valuable overview of his life and vision. The book will bring a greater appreciation of the prescience and timelessness of Shepard's writing to his many followers and friends, and it will also serve to introduce new readers to the remarkable breadth and depth of his work and insight."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Preface / Florence R. Shepard
- Introduction / David L. Petersen
- Pt. I. Following the Animals. The Origin of Metaphor: The Animal Connection. Animals and Identity Formation. Discoursing the Others. The Animal: An Idea Waiting to Be Thought. Notes for a Diatribe on Masks. The Eyes Have It. The Arboreal Eye. What the Eye Knows. Reverence for Life at Lambarene. A Theory of the Value of Hunting. Aggression and the Hunt: The Tender Carnivore. Meditations on Hunting. The Significance of Bears
- Pt. II. Searching for Place. Digging for Our Roots. Five Green Thoughts. The Nature of Tourism. Whatever Happened to Human Ecology? The Conflict of Ideology and Ecology. Sociobiology and Value Systems. Ugly Is Better. Itinerant Thoughts on Place. Place and the Child.
- Notes:
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- "Works by Paul Shepard" (p. 201-206).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209) and index.
- Subject:
- Nature
- Other authors/contributors:
- Shepard, Florence R
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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