TY - BOOK ID - 77862380 TI - Fauna and flora, earth and sky : brushes with nature's wisdom PY - 2003 SN - 1587294427 9781587294426 9780877458722 0877458723 PB - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology. KW - Mountain animals KW - Natural history KW - Ecology KW - Environment, Human KW - Human beings KW - Human environment KW - Ecological engineering KW - Human geography KW - Nature KW - Alpine animals KW - Alpine fauna KW - Alpine region animals KW - High altitude animals KW - High country animals KW - Hill animals KW - Montane animals KW - Mountain fauna KW - Mountain wildlife KW - Sub-alpine animals KW - Subalpine animals KW - Animals KW - Social aspects KW - Effect of environment on KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Dittmar, Trudy, KW - Dittmar, Gertrude, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77862380 AB - ""[Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky] is, in fact, the most intelligent, thoughtful, original, challenging, and highly entertaining work of nature writing since Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams. . . . It is her broad scope of contemplation, combined with her fiercely beautiful and detailed renderings of passion, natural and human, that give Trudy Dittmar's first but fully mature book its remarkable originality and considerable power."" --Robert Finch,Los Angeles Times Book Review""Honest self-scrutiny is irresistible, especially when told with a knack for diction of place, as this author demonstrates o ER -