Exploring our relationship to nature and the role literature can play in shaping a culture responsive to environmental realities, this thematic, multi-genre anthology includes early writers such as John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Mary Austin, alongside contemporary voices such a Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams.
Lorraine Anderson (b. 1952) grew up on a free-range chicken ranch in Cupertino, California, in the days when the Santa Clara Valley was still known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. (It's now known as Silicon Valley.) She freelances as a writer and editor and teaches writing as an adjunct professor at Linn-Benton Community College in Corvallis, Oregon.
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent for teaching, June 2, 2004
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This review is from: Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture (Paperback)
Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture has been an invaluable resource and platform for discussion in my high school literature class that centers around the natural world and man's place in it. The essays, poems, and excerpts avoid groupthink, polarization of issues, and are, for the most part, accessible to students.
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Although I haven't read all of this book, I have really enjoyed what I have read. This was assigned in a Nature & Culture college class. It has wonderful poetry and short stories. I definitely recommend it for personal enjoyment
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