Encounters with nature : essays

Author(s)

• Shepard, Paul
• Shepard, Florence R.

Bibliographic Information

Encounters with nature : essays

by Paul Shepard ; edited by Florence R. Shepard ; [introduction by David Petersen]

Island Press / Shearwater Books, c1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

"A Shearwater Book published by Island Press" --T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Throughout his life, Paul Shepard drew on a range of disciplines, including biology, ecology, ethology and anthropology, to piece together a logical and meaningful shape to the natural world. These essays, selected by his wife, offer his legacy to students of the natural world.

Table of Contents

• The origin of metaphor - the animal connection
• animals and identity formation
• the animal - an idea waiting to be thought
• notes for a diatribe on masks
• the arboreal eye
• aggression and the hunt
• a theory of the value of hunting
• meditations on hunting
• the significance of bears
• digging for our roots
• the nature of tourism
• whatever happened to human ecology?
• the conflict of ideology and ecology
• sociobiology and value systems
• itinerant thoughts on place
• place and the child.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA49093021
• ISBN:
  • 1559635290
• LCCN: 99033862
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
• Pages/Volumes: xxix, 223 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH81
  • DC21 : 508
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nature