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Ann Zwinger

Born

in Muncie, Indiana, The United States

March 12, 1925

Genre

Outdoors & Nature

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Ann Haymond Zwinger was the author of many highly-regarded natural histories noted for comprehensive detail and lyrical prose.

In 1976, she received the John Burroughs Memorial Association Gold Medal for a distinguished contribution in natural history, Run, River, Run.

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Average rating: 4.22 · 5,807 ratings · 669 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 75 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon 3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wind in the Rock: The Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah 4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra by Ann Zwinger, Beatrice E. Willard 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1972 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Aspen Grove 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mysterious Lands: A Naturalist Explores the Four Great Deserts of the Southwest 4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nearsighted Naturalist 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shaped by Wind and Water: Reflections of a Naturalist 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yosemite: Valley of Thunder 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.”
― Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

tags: constellations, cosmology, grand-canyon, nature, nature-writing, sky, stars, wildflowers

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“As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.”
― Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

tags: canyon, constellations, dawn, grand-canyon, imagery, metaphor, national-parks, nature, nature-writing, night-sky, poetic-prose, sky, sunrsie

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“I pace the shallow sea, walking the time between, reflecting on the type of fossil I’d like to be. I guess I’d like my bones to be replaced by some vivid chert, a red ulna or radius, or maybe preserved as the track of some lug-soled creature locked in the sandstone- how did it walk, what did it eat, and did it love sunshine?”
― Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

tags: canyon, deep-time, fossils, geology, grand-canyon, interconnectedness, nature, nature-writing

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