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During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell
Berry has become "mad" at what contemporary society has made of its
land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in
the poems of the Mad Farmer, an open-ended sequence he's found
himself impelled to continue against his better instincts. These
poems can take the shape of manifestos, meditations, insults,
Whitmanic fits and ravings-these are often funny in spite of
themselves. The Mad Farmer is a character as necessary, perhaps, as
he is regrettable.
Designed as both a reference work and a year-round field manual, this volume contains more than 2,400 range maps and 995 line drawings, designed to clarify descriptions used in the keys. For botanists, naturalists, and students interested in an up-to-date treatment of the vascular flora of greater New England, it has proved to be an invaluable resource. The geographic scope of the work extends from the Canadian border south through Long Island and west to the Hudson River. The ""General Keys"" section contains fourteen keys that include such groups as aquatic plants, vines, and woody plants in winter condition. For both woody and herbaceous families, the keys cover flowering as well as fruiting conditions and rely heavily on the use of vegetative features to extend the utility of the book beyond the reproductive period. The ""Descriptive Flora"" section includes keys to all of the genera and species, descriptions of the families and genera, and accounts of the individual species. The latter incorporates information on wetland site index, rare status, wildlife food value, food and medicinal value for humans, and poisonous or hallucinogenic properties. This revised edition includes an updating of plant scientific names that changed since the first edition and an alphabetized list of plant families with page numbers on the inside front cover for easy reference. This edition also includes a new CD-ROM with a multiple-entry identification guide, hundreds of accompanying photographic images of genera, an illustrated glossary, and page reference numbers to genus descriptions in the manual. Presenting a wealth of scientifically accurate information in a precise and clear format, this volume serves as a reference work, as a textbook for classes in plant identification, and as a field manual.
In this conservation classic, originally published fifty-five years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction, and for all in nature that is endangered. This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
While the story of the big has often been told, the story of the
small has not yet even been outlined. With "Dust," Joseph Amato
enthralls the reader with the first history of the small and the
invisible. "Dust" is a poetic meditation on how dust has been
experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages.
Examining a thousand years of Western civilization--from the
naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the
Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the
modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases--"Dust" offers a
savvy story of the genesis of the microcosm.
The final harvest of our great nature writer s last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau s distinctly American gospel a sacramental vision of nature in which "the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature s wonders invigorates nearly every page" (Time). In transcribing the 150-year-old manuscript s cryptic handwriting and complex notations, Thoreau specialist Bradley Dean has performed a "heroic feat of decipherment" (Booklist) to bring this great work to light. Readers will discover "passages that reach for the transcendentalist ideal of writing new scriptures, yet grounding this Bible in a vision of practical ecology" (Boston). Beautifully illustrated throughout with line drawings of the natural life Thoreau considers on his walks, Wild Fruits is "well worth any nature lover s attention" (Christian Science Monitor)."
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