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Nature's fading chorus : classic and contemporary writings on amphibians / edited by Gordon L. Miller.

Contributor(s):

Miller, Gordon L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2000Description: xiv, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

1559637935 (cl. : acidfree paper)
9781559637947

Subject(s):

Amphibians

DDC classification:

597.8 21 G6621

Contents:

Part I. Interpreting the cosmos : early naturalists -- From Historia animalium (Inquiry concerning animals) (fourth century B.C.E.) / Aristotle -- From Natural history (first century C.E.) / Pliny the Elder -- From the Physiologus (ca. second century C.E.) / Anonymous -- From De animalibus (Man and the Beasts) (ca. 1250) / Albert the Great -- From The history of four-footed beasts and serpents (1608) / Edward Topsell -- From Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646) / Thomas Browne -- From The book of nature; or, The history of insects (1669) / Jan Swammerdam -- From The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation (1691) / John Ray -- Part II. Reclaiming paradise : pioneering nature writers -- From The natural history of Selborne (1789) / Gilbert White -- From Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida (1791) / William Bartram -- From the Journal (1857-1860) / Henry David Thoreau -- The tree-toad (1904) / John Burroughs -- The toad as traveler (1919) / W.H. Hudson -- Part III. Telling naturalistic tales : scientific essayists -- From The voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The origin of species (1859) / Charles Darwin -- On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history (1874) / Thomas Henry Huxley -- The tale of tadpoles (1911) / J. Arthur Thomson -- The frog and biology (1927) / Julian Huxley -- The dance of the frogs (1978) / Loren Eiseley -- Here goes nothing (1991) / Stephen Jay Gould -- A breeding congress (1998) / David Scott -- Part IV. Remembering the earth : twentieth-century nature writers -- From The face of the fields (1911) and Sanctuary! Sanctuary! (1926) / Dallas Lore Sharp -- From An almanac for moderns (1935) / Donald Culross Peattie -- Thoughts on the common toad (1946) / George Orwell -- The day of the peepers (1949) / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Audubon's salamanders (1965) / Edwin Way Teale -- From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) / Annie Dillard -- From Wintergreen (1986) / Robert Michael Pyle -- From The mysterious lands (1989) and Downcanyon (1995) / Ann Haymond Zwinger -- From Desert quartet (1995) / Terry Tempest Williams -- Part V. Reading the signs of the times : declines, deformities, and biodiversity -- From Tracking the vanishing frogs (1994) / Kathryn Phillips -- Amphibians as harbingers of decay (1990) / Laurie J. Vitt [and others] -- Amphibians in a bad light (1994) / Andrew R. Blaustein -- The case of the vanishing frogs (1997) / Timothy R. Halliday and W. Ronald Heyer -- The sound of silence (1998) / Stephen Leahy -- Are pathogens felling frogs? (1999) / Virginia Morell -- A trematode parasite causes some frog deformities (1999) / Jocelyn Kaiser -- Dimensions of deformity / Gordon L. Miller -- Epilogue / Ann Haymond Zwinger.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	UE-Central Library	597.8 G6621 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		T1385D
Books	UE-Central Library	597.8 G6621 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		T1386D

Part I. Interpreting the cosmos : early naturalists --
From Historia animalium (Inquiry concerning animals) (fourth century B.C.E.) / Aristotle --
From Natural history (first century C.E.) / Pliny the Elder --
From the Physiologus (ca. second century C.E.) / Anonymous --
From De animalibus (Man and the Beasts) (ca. 1250) / Albert the Great --
From The history of four-footed beasts and serpents (1608) / Edward Topsell --
From Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646) / Thomas Browne --
From The book of nature; or, The history of insects (1669) / Jan Swammerdam --
From The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation (1691) / John Ray --
Part II. Reclaiming paradise : pioneering nature writers --
From The natural history of Selborne (1789) / Gilbert White --
From Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida (1791) / William Bartram --
From the Journal (1857-1860) / Henry David Thoreau --
The tree-toad (1904) / John Burroughs --
The toad as traveler (1919) / W.H. Hudson --
Part III. Telling naturalistic tales : scientific essayists --
From The voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The origin of species (1859) / Charles Darwin --
On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history (1874) / Thomas Henry Huxley --
The tale of tadpoles (1911) / J. Arthur Thomson --
The frog and biology (1927) / Julian Huxley --
The dance of the frogs (1978) / Loren Eiseley --
Here goes nothing (1991) / Stephen Jay Gould --
A breeding congress (1998) / David Scott --
Part IV. Remembering the earth : twentieth-century nature writers --
From The face of the fields (1911) and Sanctuary! Sanctuary! (1926) / Dallas Lore Sharp --
From An almanac for moderns (1935) / Donald Culross Peattie --
Thoughts on the common toad (1946) / George Orwell --
The day of the peepers (1949) / Joseph Wood Krutch --
Audubon's salamanders (1965) / Edwin Way Teale --
From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) / Annie Dillard --
From Wintergreen (1986) / Robert Michael Pyle --
From The mysterious lands (1989) and Downcanyon (1995) / Ann Haymond Zwinger --
From Desert quartet (1995) / Terry Tempest Williams --
Part V. Reading the signs of the times : declines, deformities, and biodiversity --
From Tracking the vanishing frogs (1994) / Kathryn Phillips --
Amphibians as harbingers of decay (1990) / Laurie J. Vitt [and others] --
Amphibians in a bad light (1994) / Andrew R. Blaustein --
The case of the vanishing frogs (1997) / Timothy R. Halliday and W. Ronald Heyer --
The sound of silence (1998) / Stephen Leahy --
Are pathogens felling frogs? (1999) / Virginia Morell --
A trematode parasite causes some frog deformities (1999) / Jocelyn Kaiser --
Dimensions of deformity / Gordon L. Miller --
Epilogue / Ann Haymond Zwinger.

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