On Nature : Great Writers on the Great Outdoors

Includes 20 distinguished contemporary writers who have connected with nature & learned why we are inextricably attached to it. In Against Nature,Ó Joyce Carol Oates explains why writers generally resist nature as a topic. Diane Ackerman swims with a right whale & her calf. John McPhee explores the mystery of the Loch Ness monster & the people who obsess over it. Sherry Simpson looks at the conflict-riddled business of trapping & killing Alaskan wolves. Also, essays by: Mark Doty, Barry Lopez, Vaclav Havel, Bill Bryson, Deborah Archer, Sue Ellen Campbell, Leslie Leyland Fields, John Hales, Hal Herring, Edward Hoagland, Kurt Hoelting, Paul Lindholdt, Leslie Roberts, Lucy Wilson Sherman, & Sandi Wisenberg.Lee Gutkind is the author of 'On Nature : Great Writers on the Great Outdoors', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756785994 and ISBN 0756785995.