Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology
by Edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores

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Bedrock collects works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that pay tribute to the amazing geological features that make up our Earth.

The book is organized into sections that deal with rock and stone; deep time; earthquakes and faults; volcanoes and eruptions; rivers to the sea; mountains and highlands; wind and desert; the flow of ice; and the life of the Earth. Insightful, penetrating, and provocative, the works are written from many positions— traditional and indigenous as well as Western scientific. The collection contains the words of artists and anthropologists, traditional elders and philosophers,novelists and poets, aviators, naturalists, and scientists of many flavors. Bedrock bridges specialized science and ordinary existence to portray the forces that have shaped the Earth and to give readers a sense of the geologic experience encompassing their lives.

In the tradition of works by John McPhee that have popularized geology and anthologies that collect the best science writing, Bedrock combines science and literature to create a book that wonderfully illuminates the geology of our home planet.

Contributors Mary Austin · Kofi Awoonor · Wendell Berry · Isabella Bird · Thomas Burnet · John Calderazzo · Rachel Carson · Kamo no Chomei · Lucille Clifton · Hans Cloos · Charles Darwin · Jan DeBlieu · Annie Dillard · Ivan Doig · Rita Dove · Loren Eiseley · E. M. Forster · August Gansser · Sir Archibald Geikie · G. K. Gilbert · Ray Gonzalez · Stephen Jay Gould · Jacquetta Hawkes · Arnold Heim · Daniel Hillel · Jane Hirshfield · Garrett Hongo · James D. Houston · Langston Hughes · James Hutton · John and Katherine Imbrie · James Joyce · Nikos Kazantzakis · William Langewiesche · Ursula K. Le Guin · David Leveson · Barry Lopez · Audre Lorde · Henno Martin · John McPhee · N. Scott Momaday · John Muir · Hikaru Okuizumi · Michael Ondaatje · Alfonso Ortiz · Louis Owens · Pliny the Younger · John Wesley Powell · Stephen Pyne · and more..

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Weight:	0.54 kg
Price:	CDN$ 32.50 (US$ 31.63)

ISBN-10:	1595340238
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781595340238
Author:	Edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores
Publisher:	Trinity University Press San Antonio, TX
Publication Date:	6/2006
Pages:	356 pp
Size/Dimensions:	6 x 9
Binding:	Paperback

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Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geologyby Edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores

Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology
by Edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores