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Review: A Cabin in the Woods
Cabin Fever: a Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild By Tom Montgomery Fate Beacon Press, 2011 Reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb I grew up a few miles from Walden Pond, the site of Thoreau’s famous cabin,...
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Review: Learning the Valley
Learning the Valley: Excursions into the Shenandoah Valley By John Leland University of South Carolina Press, 2010 Reviewed by Rachel Furey In the preface to John Leland’s collection of essays Learning...
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Review: We Are What We Watch—Natural History & Mindfulness
The Way of Natural History Edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner Trinity University Press, 2011 Reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb Thomas Lowe Fleischner has delivered a gem of a little book in this collection...
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Review: Evolution Needed: America’s Landscape Mythology
This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism By Terre Ryan University of Massachusetts Press, 2011 Reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb It’s a challenging and complex task:...
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Commentary: Locating David Gessner (Reviewing Gessner’s The Tarball Chronicles)
The Tarball Chronicles by David Gessner Milkweed Editions, 2011 Reviewed by Frank Izaguirre I have a complicated relationship with David Gessner’s writing the same way he has a complicated relationship...
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Review: Touring the Eastern Old Growth
Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests By Joan Maloof Ruka Press, 2011 Reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb Joan Maloof’s latest book, Among the Ancients, is an enjoyable, informed,...
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Review: On the Dark Side of the Moon: A Journey Toward Recovery
On the Dark Side of the Moon: A Journey Toward Recovery By Mike Medberry Caxton Press, 2012 Reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb On the Dark Side of the MoonBy Mike MedberryCaxton Press, 2012ISBN...
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Review: Weather or Not, We All Eat
Megan Kimble Reviews A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography by Kayann Short A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography by Kayann Short Torrey House Press, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1937226190160 pages Ialways believed...
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Cheryl Slean reviews Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, by Julia Corbett riter Julia Corbett addresses themes of independence, feminism, wildness, and balance in her...
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Frank Izaguirre Reviews The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World by Julian Hoffman ulian Hoffman’s award-winning debut, The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning...
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Maggie Trapp Reviews Xylotheque: Essays by Yelizaveta P. Renfro n Xylotheque: Essays, Yelizaveta Renfro has given us an arresting collection of lyric essays with striking black-and-white photos that...
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