Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild
Record details
- ISBN: 0593318978
- ISBN: 9780593318973
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Physical Description:
xxi, 593 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-586). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1. Suspense and Terror -- Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853) -- N.B. Young, Jr., Swamp Judgment (1926) -- Part 2. Women and Panthers -- James Fenimore Cooper, A Panther Tale (1823) -- Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance (1860) -- Ambrose Bierce, The Eyes of the Panther (1897) -- Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016) -- Part 3. Fire and Ice -- Jack London, To Build a Fire (1908) -- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrants of the Barren (1908) -- Howard O'Hagan, Trees Are Lonely Company (1958) -- Wallace Stegner, The Wolfer (1959) -- Part 4. Accident and Injury -- David Quammen, Walking Out (1988) -- Pam Houston, Selway (1991) -- Gretel Ehrlich, Pond Time (1998) -- Annie Proulx, Testimony of the Donkey (2008) -- Part 5. Catch and Release -- Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River (1925) -- Robert Traver, The Intruder (1960) -- Melinda Moustakis, They Find the Drowned (2011) -- Wayne Karlin, Memorial Days (2020) -- Part 6. Hunter and Hunted -- Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886) -- Sigurd Olson, Trail's End (1933) -- William Faulkner, The Old People (1940) -- Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife (2001) -- Part 7. Myth and Magic -- L. Frank Baum, The King of the Polar Bears (1901) -- Ohayohok, A Human Kayak (1940) -- Jenny Leading Cloud, Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (1967) -- Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) -- Part 8. Past and Present -- Marjorie Pickthall, The Third Generation (1918) -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944) -- Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape (1989) -- Ron Carlson, Happiness (2014) -- Part 9. Endangerment and Extinction -- Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1953) -- T.C. Boyle, After the Plague (2001) -- Ted Chiang, The Great Silence (2015) -- Lydia Millet, Woodland (2019) -- Part 10. Climates and Futures -- Juan Rulfo, Luvina (1953) -- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Tamarisk Hunter (2006) -- adrienne maree brown, the river (2015) -- Tommy Orange, New Jesus (2019). |
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Genre: | Short stories. Nature fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Littlestown Library | FIC WILDERNESS (Text)
Endowment:
GFWC of Littlestown Named Endowment, 2023
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35740635929094 | Fiction | Available | - |
Martinsburg Community Library | F Fus (Text) | 1OMAR00090651J | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | FUSS (Text) | 31901004688125 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |