By Mike NewellXoxox Press, 2008
Working on seasonal wildfires in the 1970’s and 1980’s across Alaskan tundra and mountain ranges, wildland firefighter Mike Newell developed a deep appreciation for an arctic and subarctic landscape whose scale dwarfs all human effort. Returning each fire season, Newell found himself increasingly transfixed by the primal allure of the [...]
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Wild Form & Savage Grammar
Posted in Asia, Natural History, Poetry, South Asia on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Andrew Schelling
La Alameda Press, 2003.
These essays are reports from an increasingly important crossroads where art and ecology meet. Andrew Schelling belongs, in the words of Patrick Pritchett, “to a small group of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world.” He is also the preeminent translator into English [...]
Neptune’s Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas
Posted in Natural History on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By David Rains Wallace
Illustrations by Ken Kirkland
University of California Press, 2007.
Neptune’s Ark illuminates the dramatic saga of evolution spanning 500 million years of marine life along the magnificent Pacific coast of western North America. In an engaging narrative that artfully blends elements of science, history, folklore, and personal observation, renowned naturalist David Rains Wallace reveals [...]
