Screen LibraryWilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild /
"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
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Alfred A. Knopf,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- A collection of short stories about the North American wilderness and outdoor life. They reveal the many ways in which the North American literary landscape has shaped-- and is shaped by-- our conceptions of the wild. Mystery, myth and magic, danger and survival, retreat and solitude, and even tales of environment and extinction fill these pages. Fuss includes an introductory text and commentary showing the evolution of the wilderness story, from the early 1800s to modern day. -- adapted from jacket |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 593 pages : illustrations, ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780593318973 0593318978 |
| Index Number: | PS648 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/W673-8 |
| Contents: |
Suspense and terror: Rip Van Winkle / Young Goodman Brown / The heroic slave / Swamp judgment / Women and panthers: A panther tale / Circumstance / The eyes of the panther / The midnight zone / Fire and ice: To build a fire / The vagrants of the barren / Trees are lonely company / Accident and injury: Walking out / Selway / Pond time / Testimony of the donkey / Catch and release: Big two-hearted river / The intruder / They find the drowned / Memorial days / Hunter and hunted: A white heron / Trail's end / The old people / The hunter's wife / Myth and magic: The king of the polar bears / A human kayak / Spotted Eagle and Black Crow / St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / Past and present: The third generation / The wind and the snow of winter / Death by landscape / Happiness / Endangerment and extinction: The fog horn / After the plague / The great silence / Woodland / Climates and futures: Luvina / The tamarisk hunter / the river / New Jesus / |