Thunder Tree

Reprint

Robert Michael Pyle , Richard Louv 저자(글)

Oregon State University Press · 2011년 04월 15일

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Robert Michael Pyle, Called one of America's finest natural history writers by Sue Hubbell, is the author of fifteen books, including Mariposa Road, Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal. A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in southwestern Washington.
Richard Louv is the author ofLast Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorderand chairman of the Children & Nature Network.
Robert Michael Pyle is the author ofMariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks,andWintergreen, which received a John Burroughs Medal. He lives in Southwest Washington.
An engrossing memoir and eloquent portrait of place, The Thunder Treeshows how powerful the relationship between people and the natural world can be. "When people connect with nature, it happens somewhere,"Pyle writes. "My own point of intimate contact with the land was a ditch... Without a doubt, most of the elements of my life flowed from that canal." The High Line Canal, originally built outside of Denver as part of an ambitious plan to bring water to eastern Colorado for irrigation, became the author's place of sanctuary and play, and his birthplace as a naturalist. This reprint of the classic book, updated with a new foreword by Richard Louv and a preface to this edition, makes one of Pyle's important early works once again available. For a new generation of readers, it offers a powerful argument for preserving opportunities for exploring nature.
""When people connect with nature, it happens somewhere," writes Bob Pyle. "My own point of intimate contact with the land was a ditch." The High Line Canal, originally built outside of Denver as part of an ambitious plan to bring water to eastern Colorado for irrigation, became the young Pyle's place of sanctuary and play, his birthplace as a naturalist, and the inspiration for his widely quoted concept of "the extinction of experience." An engrossing memoir and an eloquent portrait of place, The Thunder Treereveals the deep relationship between people--especially children--and the natural world. For a new generation of readers, Pyle's environmental coming-of-age story offers a powerful argument for preserving opportunities to explore nature.
"Never preachy, never cloying: a powerful and memorable example of place writing." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Pyle has written an engrossing story of at least two levels: a charming memoir of his youth on the canal and a sobering account of uncontrolled development and loss of habitat."-- Publishers Weekly
"'The Thunder Tree' was a huge, hollow old cottonwood in which the author and his brother once found shelter as children from a life-threatening hailstorm. The tree grew along the High Line Canal, built in the late 19th century as part of a grand plan to bring river water to the Western plains for irrigation. Only a portion of the canal was ever built, but that portion happened to run through the city of Aurora, Colorado, where the author lived as a child and young adult ... this book is about the relationship between people and natural areas and how each affects the other." -- Library Journal

작가정보

저자(글) Robert Michael Pyle

저자(글) Richard Louv

목차

• Foreword	p. x
  Prologue: Everybody's Ditch	p. 1
  Lifeline	p. 5
  The Hailstorm	p. 7
  Watercourse	p. 20
  The Rivers of April	p. 40
  Landmarks	p. 55
  Lilacs and Crossflowers	p. 57
  Magpie Days	p. 74
  Mile Roads	p. 87
  City Limits	p. 97
  Snodgrass, Tatum, and Beasley	p. 99
  Of Grass and Growth	p. 111
  The Extinction of Experience	p. 130
  Still Life	p. 143
  Butterflies in Winter	p. 145
  A Grand Surprise	p. 1594
  The Thunder Tree	p. 174
  Epilogue: Travels in the Aftermath	p. 189
  Afterword to the 2011 Edition	p. 199
  Acknowledgments	p. 204
  Sources	p. 207
  Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

기본정보

ISBN	9780870716027 ( 0870716026 )
발행(출시)일자	2011년 04월 15일
쪽수	212쪽
크기	155 * 228 * 15 mm / 354 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어