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Wesleyan University; Columbia University. Mills College.
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution (By: David Rains Wallace) published: April, 2003
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution by David Rains Wallace (1983-11-08)
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution
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Book by David Rains Wallace
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Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays
(There are times when we get so involved in shaping nature...)
There are times when we get so involved in shaping nature, that we miss seeing nature. That is not a problem for David Wallace, who lives with an awareness of the smallest ecosystems that surround us and who has obviously given their perpetuation a lot of thought. This naturalist and philosopher has lived in places as diverse as San Francisco and New Jersey, and visited the Okefenokee and Japan with equal interest. He seems to be unperturbed by wandering into those spaces the rest of us seldom frequent, and running across sleeping bears, or sleeping on stilts in the swamp surrounded by the reflected light of alligator eyes. He studies the earth and appreciates its diversity, particularly in those out of the way places that we have not yet touched. It is for this revelation that reading this book is such a pleasurable experience. The beautifully descriptive scenes allow the reader to "finally escape from the world of suppressed waterways" as the author writes. In a chapter titled "Wetlands in America" the author traces the history of a fictitious family from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to modern America through their impact on the wetlands of our country. "Fifteen thousand years of post-glacial swamps and marshes prepared a North American continent eminently suited to agro-industrial exploitation," he writes, "which has always seems a little uncanny and ironic to me." Reviewed by Karin E. Guzy
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The Turquoise Dragon by David Rains Wallace (1987-03-12)
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by David Rains Wallace (2003-04-24)
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The Klamath Knot by David Rains Wallace (1984-02-02)
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Articulate Earth: Adventures in Ecocriticism
(Articulate Earth is a collection of 23 provocative essays...)
Articulate Earth is a collection of 23 provocative essays spanning the past 30 years of Wallace s career. Through meticulous research and hands-on experience, he explores American culture's relationship with nature particularly that of the West in its literary, scientific, and political dimensions. Selected essays include: --The Nature of Nature Writing --The Real John Muir --The Klamath Surprise --Bristlecone Forest --California Landscape and Literature
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Articulate Earth: Adventures in Ecocriticism by David Rains Wallace (2014-10-20)
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The Klamath Knot
(Wallace takes on evolution (and the way we were taught ab...)
Wallace takes on evolution (and the way we were taught about it) the way Annie Dillard lifted the veil over nature in "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek": you are forced to replace the myths with a newer, even more mysterious understanding. Ironically, the theory of Sasquatch is retold as common-sensical, scientific fact. The steelhead trout, in fact, comes across as the greater nystery! I count this book among my all-time favorites, a sort of heir apparent to "Walden."
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by David Rains Wallace (2003-04-24)
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
( Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, ...)
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the Commonwealth Club Silver Medal for Literature 1984, and named one of the twentieth century's best nonfiction books by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Klamath Knot, originally published by Sierra Club Books in 1983, is a personal vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the lens of "evolutionary mythology." David Rains Wallace uses his explorations of the diverse ecosystems in this region to ponder the role of evolution and myth in our culture. The author's new epilogue makes a case for the creation of a new park to safeguard this exceptionally rich storehouse of relict species and evolutionary stories, which has largely been bypassed by conservationists since John Muir.
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by David Rains Wallace (2003-04-24)
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The Turquoise Dragon
(A mystery with an ecological twist... When ex-forest rang...)
A mystery with an ecological twist... When ex-forest ranger George Clark uncovers the murdered body of a naturalist friend in California's Klamath Mountains and understands his friend's startling discovery, he is drawn into the orbit of a millionaire who made his fortune trading in endangered
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
( Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosau...)
Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two—in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the saga of ancient mammals to a general audience for the first time. Using artist Rudolph Zallinger's majestic The Age of Mammals mural at the Peabody Museum as a frame for his narrative, Wallace deftly moves over varied terrain—drawing from history, science, evolutionary theory, and art history—to present a lively account of fossil discoveries and an overview of what those discoveries have revealed about early mammals and their evolution. In these pages we encounter towering mammoths, tiny horses, giant-clawed ground sloths, whales with legs, uintatheres, zhelestids, and other exotic extinct creatures as well as the scientists who discovered and wondered about their remains. We meet such memorable figures as Georges Cuvier, Richard Owen, Edward D. Cope, George Gaylord Simpson, and Stephen Jay Gould and learn of their heated disputes, from Cuvier's and Owen's fights with early evolutionists to present controversies over the Late Cretaceous mass extinction. Wallace's own lifelong interest in evolution is reflected in the book's evocative and engaging style and in the personal experiences he expertly weaves into the tale, providing an altogether expansive perspective on what Darwin described as the "grandeur" of evolution.
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David Wallace
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He has written articles for the National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and other groups. Wallace"s work also has appeared in Harper"s Magazine, The New York Times, Sierra, and other periodicals. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1945.
Wallace received a bachelor"s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and a master"s from Mills College in Oakland, California.
He also undertook graduate work at Columbia University. Wallace lives in Berkeley, California.
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
( Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, ...)
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The Klamath Knot
(Wallace takes on evolution (and the way we were taught ab...)
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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
( Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosau...)
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Articulate Earth: Adventures in Ecocriticism
(Articulate Earth is a collection of 23 provocative essays...)
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Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays
(There are times when we get so involved in shaping nature...)
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The Turquoise Dragon
(A mystery with an ecological twist... When ex-forest rang...)
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution
(Book by David Rains Wallace)
- The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays. Illus. by Julie S. Leech.
- The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution (By: David Rains Wallace) published: April, 2003
- The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution by David Rains Wallace (1983-11-08)
- The Turquoise Dragon by David Rains Wallace (1987-03-12)
- The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by David Rains Wallace (2003-04-24)
- The Klamath Knot by David Rains Wallace (1984-02-02)
- Articulate Earth: Adventures in Ecocriticism by David Rains Wallace (2014-10-20)
- The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by David Rains Wallace (2003-04-24)
- The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by David Rains Wallace (2003-04-24)
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
