Table of Contents
The Words Nature, Wild, and Wilderness
THE PLACE, THE REGION, ANT THE COMMONS
The Kuuvangmiut and the Humanities
BLUE MOUNTAINS CONSTANTLY WALKING
Larger Than a Wolf, Smaller Than an Elk
ANCIENT FORESTS OF THE FAR WEST
Excursus: Sailor Meadow, Sierra Nevada
On “The Woman Who Married a Bear”
Maria Johns and the Telling of This Story
By Gary Snyder
POETRY:
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
Myths and Texts
The Back Country
Regarding Wave
Turtle Island
Axe Handles
Left Out in the Rain
No Nature
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Danger on Peaks
PROSE:
Earth House Hold
He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village
Passage Through India
The Practice of the Wild
A Place in Space
The High Sierra of California (with Tom Killion)
Back on the Fire
Tamalpais Walking (with Tom Killion)
POETRY AND PROSE SELECTIONS: