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Acknowledgments | ix | |
Foreword | xi | |
Introduction | xv | |
1 | Of Rock and Stone | 1 |
from The Stones Cry Out | 5 | |
from "The Innocence of Rock" in A Sense of the Earth | 13 | |
from "Ode to the Land: The Dine Perspective" | 16 | |
from "Digression on Rocks, Soils and Men" in A Land | 22 | |
from A Passage to India | 27 | |
from "The Relic Men" in The Night Country | 30 | |
"A Question of Conglomerate" | 38 | |
"Rock" from Given Sugar, Given Salt | 41 | |
2 | Deep Time | 43 |
from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 46 | |
from "The Slit" in The Immense Journey | 47 | |
from Wind, Sand and Stars | 53 | |
"The Fish in the Stone" from Museum | 55 | |
from Theory of the Earth | 56 | |
from Man in the Landscape | 60 | |
from Letters from the Earth | 65 | |
3 | Faults, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis | 71 |
from An Account of My Hut | 75 | |
from Roughing It | 77 | |
from "The Investigation of the California Earthquake of 1906" | 80 | |
"The Temblor: A Personal Narration" | 86 | |
from "Assembling California" in Annals of the Former World | 94 | |
from "The Recent Earthquake Wave on the Coast of Japan" | 96 | |
4 | Volcanoes and Eruptions | 99 |
from Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives | 103 | |
from Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i | 109 | |
from "Cooling the Lava" in The Control of Nature | 115 | |
"Account of the Death of Pliny the Elder" | 122 | |
from Voyage of the Beagle | 125 | |
from "Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos" in Teaching a Stone to Talk | 129 | |
"Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll" in Craters of Fire | 131 | |
"Fire in the Night" | 140 | |
"A Very Warm Mountain" | 146 | |
5 | On Mountains and Highlands | 155 |
from Modern Painters | 160 | |
from "Letter VII" in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains | 162 | |
from "Basin and Range" in Annals of the Former World | 166 | |
from "Look to the Mountaintop" | 171 | |
from Land of the Spotted Eagle | 176 | |
from This House of Sky | 178 | |
from The Sacred Theory of the Earth | 182 | |
from Landscape in History and Other Essays | 185 | |
from My First Summer in the Sierra | 189 | |
"Why" | 191 | |
6 | Rivers to the Sea | 193 |
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" | 197 | |
from "The Flow of the River" in The Immense Journey | 198 | |
from From Heaven Lake | 202 | |
from "A Native Hill" | 206 | |
from "The Bend" in River Notes | 208 | |
from The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (formerly Canyons of the Colorado) | 212 | |
"the mississippi river empties into the gulf" from The Terrible Stories | 219 | |
from "Atchafalaya" in The Control of Nature | 220 | |
from "The Marginal World" in The Edge of the Sea | 224 | |
7 | The Work of Ice | 229 |
from Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery | 232 | |
from An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery | 235 | |
from The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica | 238 | |
from "The Great Scablands Debate" in The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History | 242 | |
from Arnold Heim and August Gassner's The Throne of the Gods | 246 | |
from Wolfsong | 251 | |
from The Yosemite | 252 | |
8 | Wind and Desert | 255 |
from Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land | 260 | |
from The English Patient | 263 | |
from Conversations with the Earth | 265 | |
from "The Physics of Blown Sand" in Sahara Unveiled | 267 | |
"Sahara" from The Black Unicorn | 271 | |
"Desert Rain" in The Sheltering Desert | 274 | |
from The Land of Little Rain | 277 | |
"Wind" from Ocean Power | 282 | |
from "White Sands" in Memory Fever | 285 | |
9 | Living on Earth | 289 |
from The Way to Rainy Mountain | 292 | |
from Out of the Earth | 296 | |
from Report to Greco | 299 | |
from The Breast of the Earth | 301 | |
from The Grapes of Wrath | 303 | |
from "Interior and Exterior Landscapes: The Pueblo Migration Stories" | 307 | |
from A Sense of the Earth | 314 | |
from "An American Land Ethic" in The Man Made of Words | 317 | |
"Earth Verse" in Mountains and Rivers Without End | 321 | |
Contributors | 323 | |
Permissions | 333 | |
Photo credits | 339 |
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