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Wonderments of the East Bay

Autor Sylvia Linsteadt, Malcom Margolin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2014
The East Bay Regional Parks abound in wonderments: animals, plants, sounds, geological formations, histories, and languages that stimulate our curiosity and expand our capacity for awe. In exquisite, lyrical essays, Sylvia Linsteadt and Malcolm Margolin with help from their friends revel in these wonderments.

- Vernal pools burst into bloom in springtime, transforming cracked earth into wetlands crowded with wildflowers and fairy shrimp.

- Marsh wrens trill reedy tunes from their 200-song repertoire.

Stretches of rock wall span the hills, perplexing any who endeavor to explain their purpose.

- A volcano lies toppled just a few miles from the core of downtown Oakland.

- And more

Drawing from scientific fact, human history, photography, and literature, this exploration of natural areas of San Francisco's East Bay gently situates us in the area's "magnificent and fleeting tangle of life." The authors assure us that Wonderments of the East Bay will be as much fun to rea

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ISBN-13: 9781597142960
ISBN-10: 1597142964
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 127 x 175 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: HEYDAY BOOKS

Notă biografică

Sylvia Linsteadt followed coyote tracks all the way back to her native Bay Area after attending Brown University, where she studied literary arts. Her books include Tatterdemalion (Unbound, forthcoming) and Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday, 2014). Her work—both fiction and nonfiction—explores the realms of deep ecology, history, and myth. She runs two stories-by-mail projects, The Grey Fox Epistles and The Leveret Letters, and in 2014 her manuscript > received the James D. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has been published in New California Writing 2013, The Dark Mountain Project, and News from Native California.