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In a time when man’s relationship to nature is so warped that we often do not know where the food we eat has come from, or even, sometimes, what it is, this is a joyful and intelligent re-examination of our place in the natural world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560996675857,"sku":"GOR002976941","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330374443.jpg?v=1750910197"},{"product_id":"nature-reader-cloth-book-d-halpern-9780880014915","title":"The Nature Reader (Cloth)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA splendid anthology that began as a sellout issue of\u0026gt;\u003cem\u003eAntaeus\u003c\/em\u003e more than a decade ago, this completely revised and expanded edition is larger by half than its forebear -- reflecting the virtual explosion of great writing on nature that has taken place in the interim. Twenty-seven writers from a wide range of disciplines have added to the original roster of contributors. Whether it's Julia Blackburn describing the disappearance of a paradise called St. Helena's between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, David Quammen describing twentieth century Rattlesnake Passion, David Abrams introducing us to local magic in Indonesia, or Terry Tempest Williams locking horns with her family over the Endangered Species Act, the subject of Nature is no longer limited to contemplative pastorales. Without a doubt, some of the most exciting work being written late in the twentieth century is about nature and natural histo as we begin again to assess the serious question of how humankind is part of nature, and how nature expresses itself through us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nature Reader\u003c\/em\u003e brings the foremost writers in the field -- Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland, Peter Matthiessen, John McPhee, Edward O. Wilson, David Quammen -- together with well-known poets and fiction writers such as Elizabeth Bishop, Italo Calvino, Richard Ford, John Fowles, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel Garc a M rquez. 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After seeing a new translation of Jorge Luis Borges' mini-essay \"Borges and I\" (included here), Halpern asked numerous writers to muse briefly on 'the fictional persona 'behind the scenes\", the alter(ed) ego that accompanies creation. He asked some 50 well-known authors - such as Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, William Gass, Czeslaw Milosz, James Michener, Joyce Carol Oates, and Cynthia Ozick - to write pieces on this idea. The essays are mostly one- to two-page snapshots and vary widely as to approach. Some are touching, others delightfully silly. Edward Gorey anagrams his name into those of characters including Ogdred Weary. Others, such as Cecil Brown, posit earthier personas: 'He is the proper Negro who is ashamed of me, the nigger'. 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