Steven Simpson's career spans three related disciplines and two continents. As a Fulbright scholar in the early 1990s, he left Iowa State University to teach at National Taiwan University. More recently, he taught environmental education, outdoor recreation, and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and National Taiwan Normal University's Graduate Institute of Environmental Education. Prior to academia, he worked as a naturalist in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California. Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World is his fifth book.
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Preface Introduction: Personal Philosophy and Individual Experiences Part I: The Pond and the Shack 1 The Good Oak Redux 2 Drowning Out All Our Muskrats 3 Wild Apples 4 Still Fishing 5 A Person's Leisure Time 6 Book Purge Part II: Sketches Here and There 7 Wisconsin East: A Small Square of Red 8 California With a Touch of Maine: Tide Pools East and West 9 Minnesota: Night of the Quintze 10 Iowa: The Birds of Iowa 11 Taiwan: Ascent of Jade Mountain 12 A Return to Taiwan: Old and American 13 Ontario: Goodbye, Deadbroke Island 14 Wisconsin West: Mark Twain on the Mekong 15 Wisconsin West: What About the Other Kids? 16 Three Outsdoorsmen and a Philosopher Part III: Continuums 17 The Preservationist and the Conservationist 18 The Wanderer and the Adventurer 19 The Homecomer and the Sojourner 20 The Romantic and the Scientist 21 The Restorer Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes About the Author