The Nearsighted Naturalist
eBook - ePub

The Nearsighted Naturalist

  1. English
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eBook - ePub

The Nearsighted Naturalist

About this book

Seeking out wildflowers and whitewater, Ann Zwinger has called many places home. The Nearsighted Naturalist brings together work from more than two decades in her career as one of our most distinguished natural history writers. From the Indiana landscape of her youth to her Colorado mountain retreat, from Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon to New Zealand's Kapiti Island, Zwinger leads an ever-widening armchair tour of natural places both ordinary and astonishing. Whether anticipating the first day of spring or seeing the elegance of the subtle hues of a moth's papery wings, Zwinger's trademark eye for detail brings the landscape alive. Her travels trace her evolution from a home-centered wife and mother to a wandering adventurer, an evolution that has taught her to be at home in nature no matter where she is. Sprinkled with Zwinger's own charming pen-and-ink drawings, The Nearsighted Naturalist reminds us of the power of the very best nature writing. It is an invitation to wander, to travel to faraway places, to revisit your own backyard, to chase dragonflies, and to experience the healing power of a sea-smoothed pebble. With the author, readers will embark on a fascinating exploration into distant deserts of the mind and hillsides of the heart.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Remembering Indiana
  8. The Day before Spring
  9. Under the Silver Ceiling
  10. Annals of an Amateur Insect Collector
  11. Moths
  12. First Snowfall
  13. Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
  14. The Eagle’s Fate and Mine Are One
  15. The Flip Side of River Travel
  16. Rowing the San Juan River
  17. A’aly Waipia
  18. Of Pebbles and Place
  19. Wind on Round Mountain
  20. A Cave with a View
  21. Birds in the Bush
  22. Last Look at the Long River
  23. A Hungarian in Baja California
  24. A World of Infinite Variety
  25. Drawing on Experience
  26. The Art of Wandering
  27. “What’s a Nice Girl Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?”
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. About the Author