Antaeus: On Nature

by Daniel Halpern (Editor)

Our relationship with the natural world is the critical issue facing the human race, and the importance we accord to getting it right will determine our future. The thirty writers from Europe and North America who here discuss that relationship in all its aspects, from the study of nature in the past, through fieldwork, to Western man’s sense of alienation from nature include: Italo Calvino on Pliny’s Natural History; Edward Hoagland on the great naturalist, John Muir; Annie Dillard on experiencing a total eclipse; Edward O. Wilson on an electrical storm over the Amazon; John Rodman on Dolphins; Keith Basso on names, paces and moral narratives among the Western Apaches; and John Fowls on the myth of the Green Man of the woods.

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1989