Writing wild : women poets, ramblers, and mavericks who shape how we see the natural world / Kathryn Aalto.

In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet t...

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Main Author: Aalto, Kathryn (Author)
Language:English
Published: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2020.
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Physical Description:287 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- Susan Fenimore Cooper -- Gene Stratton-Porter -- Mary Austin -- Vita Sackville-West -- Nan Shepherd -- Rachel Carson -- Mary Oliver -- Carolyn Merchant -- Annie Dillard -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Diane Ackerman -- Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Lauret Savoy -- Rebecca Solnit -- Kathleen Jamie -- Carolyn Finney -- Helen MacDonald -- Saci Lloyd -- Andrea Wulf -- Camile T. Dungy -- Elena Passarello -- Amy Liptrot -- Eilizabeth Rush -- Afterword. 
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