A city girl transplanted to the country, Daryln Hoffstot delights in discovering and sharing what she learns and deeply knows about the land on which she lives. Living and learning on the farm has strengthened her commitment to caring for the plants and animals that surround us, and she shares it all with us in her beautifully written essays.
Eugene Connett, III, the venerable founder of The Derrydale Press, described Edmund Smith as "the most polished writer we have ever published. The discovery of this manuscript in 1936 was, he said, "one of the happiest events of the past year." Smith was a master New England storyteller who expressed his love and knowledge of wild places through ......
The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.
Send a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks is the story of one park ranger's journey from Gettysburg to Denali and back, raising a family, contending with bears, and rescuing hikers, in four national parks over more than 30 years. Interspersed with real-time journal entries, these reflective, engaging, stories illustrate the real life of a ......
This scholarly work focuses on encounters with light, telling the story of "seduction" from the Middle Ages through our times, as revealed in works of literature and art, including architecture and film. Rather than the historical investigation of light's "essential" nature, its subject is our relationship with light.
Following Francoise d'Eaubonne's creation of the term "ecofeminism" in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections ......
Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises
This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.
Trees are a big part of any communitys character, and this is very much the case in Phoenix. This desert city with its hot, dry climate hosts a unique assemblage of species like Arizona Ash, Arizona Sycamore, Live Oak, and state tree Blue Palo Verde.