| Description |
xxi, 593 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1. Suspense and Terror -- Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853) -- N.B. Young, Jr., Swamp Judgment (1926) -- Part 2. Women and Panthers -- James Fenimore Cooper, A Panther Tale (1823) -- Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance (1860) -- Ambrose Bierce, The Eyes of the Panther (1897) -- Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016) -- Part 3. Fire and Ice -- Jack London, To Build a Fire (1908) -- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrants of the Barren (1908) -- Howard O'Hagan, Trees Are Lonely Company (1958) -- Wallace Stegner, The Wolfer (1959) -- Part 4. Accident and Injury -- David Quammen, Walking Out (1988) -- Pam Houston, Selway (1992) -- Gretel Ehrlich, Pond Time (1998) -- Annie Proulx, Testimony of the Donkey (2008) -- Part 5. Catch and Release -- Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River (1925) -- Robert Traver, The Intruder (1960) -- Melinda Moustakis, They Find the Drowned (2011) -- Wayne Karlin, Memorial Days (2020) -- Part 6. Hunter and Hunted -- Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886) -- Sigurd Olson, Trail's End (1933) -- William Faulkner, The Old People (1940) -- Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife (2001) -- Part 7. Myth and Magic -- L. Frank Baum, The King of the Polar Bears (1901) -- Ohayohok, A Human Kayak (1940) -- Jenny Leading Cloud, Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (1967) -- Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) -- Part 8. Past and Present -- Marjorie Pickthall, The Third Generation (1918) -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944) -- Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape (1989) -- Ron Carlson, Happiness (2014) -- Part 9. Endangerment and Extinction -- Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) -- T.C. Boyle, After the Plague (1999) -- Ted Chiang, The Great Silence (2015) -- Lydia Millet, Woodland (2019) -- Part 10. Climates and Futures -- Juan Rulfo, Luvina (1953) -- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Tamarisk Hunter (2006) -- adrienne maree brown, the river (2015) -- Tommy Orange, New Jesus (2019). |
| Summary |
"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-586). |
| Subject |
Nature stories, American.
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Ecofiction, American.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- North America -- Fiction.
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Outdoor life -- North America -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, Canadian.
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Short stories, Mexican.
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| Genre |
Nature fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Fuss, Diana, 1960- editor.
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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Rip Van Winkle.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Young Goodman Brown.
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Heroic slave.
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Young, Nathan B., 1894-1993.
Swamp judgment.
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Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.
Panther tale.
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Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921.
Circumstance.
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Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Eyes of the panther.
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Groff, Lauren.
Midnight zone.
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London, Jack, 1876-1916.
To build a fire.
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Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir, 1860-1943.
Vagrants of the barren.
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| ISBN |
9780593318973 (hardcover) |
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