Sold Out
Book Categories |
Preface ix
Preface from the first edition xii
Acknowledgments from the first edition xv
The Earth Experienced 1
Eyewitness Accounts of Earth Events 3
Los Angeles Against the Mountains John McPhee 4
The Night the Mountain Fell Gordon Gaskill 6
The Turtle Mountain Slide R.G. McConnell R.W. Brock 11
Candide Voltaire 12
The Lisbon Earthquake James R. Newman 15
The Temblor Mary Austin 18
The Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake Jonathan Weiner 21
Tsunami Francis P. Shepard 23
Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll Haroun Tazieff 24
Last Days of St Pierre Fairfax Downey 29
Beacons on the Passage Out Hans Cloos 32
Eruption of the Oraefajokull, 1727 Jon Thorlakson 35
Exploration 38
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 38
The Map that Changed the World Simon Winchester 40
The Exploration of the Colorado River John Wesley Powell 42
Mono Lake-Aurora-Sonora Pass William H. Brewer 44
Thrills in Fossil Hunting George F. Sternberg 45
The Creative Explosion John E. Pfeiffer 47
Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal George Gaylord Simpson 49
Explorations Robert D. Ballard 50
The Blue Planet Louise B. Young 53
Geologists are also Human 54
Stepping Stones Stephen Drury 55
William Buckland Elizabeth O.B. Gordon 56
The Old Red Sandstone Hugh Miller 60
A Long Life's Work Sir Archibald Geikie 64
Life, Time, and Darwin Frank H.T. Rhodes 66
King's Formative Years R.A. Bartlett 69
With Shackleton in the Antarctic M.E. David 72
The Great Diamond Hoax William H. Goetzmann 76
Sand, Wind, and War$dForeword by Luna B. Leopold$dPaul D. Komar$dVance Haynes 79
Ship's Wake Hans Cloos 81
Celebrities 85
Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream H. Stommel 85
Leonardo Da Vinci as a Geologist Thomas Clements 87
Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology R. Magnus 89
Megalonyx, Mammoth, and Mother Earth E.T. Martin 93
Three Short, Happy Months William A. Stanley 96
Mountain-Worship W.G. Collingwood 98
Stanford University, 1891-1895 Herbert C. Hoover 100
Interpreting the Earth 103
Philosophy 105
Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability James Hutton 106
The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses T.C. Chamberlin 110
Historical Science George Gaylord Simpson 113
What is a Species? Stephen Jay Gould 116
Messages in Stone Christine Turner 119
Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature Marcia G. Bjornerud 120
Does God Play Dice? Ian Stewart 123
The Fossil Record 126
Earth and Man Frank H.T. Rhodes 127
Flowering Earth Donald Culross Peattie 129
Habits and Habitats Robert Claiborne 134
Diplodocus, The Dinosaur James A. Michener 137
A Window on the Oligocene Berton Roueche 141
A Fish Caught in Time Samantha Weinberg 143
Ape-like Ancestors Richard E. Leakey 145
The Relic Men Loren Eiseley 146
Geotectonics 151
From the Boundless Deep & The Birth of the Rockies James A. Michener 152
When Pigs Ruled the Earth Anna Grayson 155
The Living Planet David Attenborough 158
The Road to Jaramillo William Glen 161
Mao's Almanac: 3,000 Years of Killer Earthquakes J. Tuzo Wilson 163
Geologic Jeopardy Richard H. Jahns 167
Controversies 171
Apes, Angels, and Victorians William Irvine 172
The Great Piltdown Hoax William L. Straus, Jr 175
Fossils and Free Enterprisers Howard S. Miller 179
The K-T Extinction Charles Officer Jake Page 182
The Founders of Geology Sir Archibald Geikie 185
To a Rocky Moon Don E. Wilhelms 188
Properties and Composition of Lunar Materials: Earth Analogies Edward Schreiber Orson L. Anderson 190
CFCs Joel L. Swerdlow 192
Language of the Earth 195
Prose 197
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen 197
Seven Pillars of Wisdom T.E. Lawrence 200
Green Hills of Africa Ernest Hemingway 201
Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupery 202
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 204
Trip to the Middle and North Forks of San Joaquin River John Muir 207
Roughing It Mark Twain 209
A Place on the Glacial Till Thomas Fairchild Sherman 211
Basin and Range John McPhee 213
Neanderthal John Darnton 215
Antarctica Kim Stanley Robinson 218
The Lost World Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 220
Poetry 223
Landscape and Literature Sir Archibald Geikie 224
The Excursion William Wordsworth 226
The Lisbon Earthquake Voltaire 227
The Fountains of the Earth C.S. Rafinesque 228
To a Trilobite Timothy A. Conrad 229
A Shropshire Lad A.E. Housman 230
Mente et Malleo Andrew C. Lawson 230
Selected Poems John Stuart Blackie 232
Lyell's Hypothesis Again Kenneth Rexroth 233
Selected Poems A.R. Ammons 234
Stone Charles Simic 236
Fossils J.T. Barbarese 236
Rock Jane Hirshfield 237
Poetry Matters: Gary Snyder W. Scott McLean Eldridge M. Moores David A. Robertson 238
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?$dThe Book of Job 242
Art 244
A Land: Sculpture Jacquetta Hawkes 245
Beyond Modern Sculpture Jack Burnham 247
Time's Profile: John Wesley Powell, Art, and Geology at the Grand Canyon Elizabeth C. Childs 249
Thomas Moran: American Landscape Painter R.A. Bartlett 253
Earth Calling Diane Ackerman 255
The Crowded Planet 257
Human History 259
Minerals and World History John D. Ridge 260
A Land: Architecture Jacquetta Hawkes 261
The Geologic and Topographic Setting of Cities Donald F. Eschman Melvin G. Marcus 263
Topography and Strategy in the War Douglas W. Johnson 266
Geology and Crime John McPhee 268
Tambora and Krakatau Kenneth E.F. Watt 269
Mortgaging the Old Homestead Lord Ritchie-Calder 273
Breathing the Future and the Past Harlow Shapley 275
Resources 277
Wealth from the Salt Seas Rachel L. Carson 278
Minerals, People, and the Future Charles F. Park, Jr 280
The Bingham Canyon Pit M. Dane Picard 282
The Geological Attitude John G.C.M. Fuller 284
Geology - For Human Needs Michel T. Halbouty 286
Benevolent Planet 289
Gaia James Lovelock 290
The Web of Life Fritjof Capra 291
Remember the Land Charles Morgan 292
Rachel Carson: The Idea of Environment Gabriele Kass-Simon 293
Silent Spring Rachel L. Carson 294
Who is El Nino? S. George Philander 295
Essay on the Earth Sciences$dNational Research Council 297
The Round Walls of Home Diane Ackerman 299
The Butterfly Effect Ernest Zebrowski, Jr 301
Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan 304
Sources 305
Names index 315
Subject index 320
Login|Complaints|Blog|Games|Digital Media|Souls|Obituary|Contact Us|FAQ
CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? CLICK HERE!!! X
You must be logged in to add to WishlistX
This item is in your Wish ListX
This item is in your CollectionLanguage of the Earth: A Literary Anthology
X
This Item is in Your InventoryLanguage of the Earth: A Literary Anthology
X
You must be logged in to review the productsX
X
X
Add Language of the Earth: A Literary Anthology, Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this new edition of the tandmark literary anthology, Language of the Earth. This volume provides a portrait of the planet as experienced not just by scientists, but by artists, aviators, poets, phi, Language of the Earth: A Literary Anthology to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
X
Add Language of the Earth: A Literary Anthology, Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this new edition of the tandmark literary anthology, Language of the Earth. This volume provides a portrait of the planet as experienced not just by scientists, but by artists, aviators, poets, phi, Language of the Earth: A Literary Anthology to your collection on WonderClub |