Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue: Opening with Thoreau
1. The Making of a Conservationist: John James Audubon (1785–1851)
2. Envisioning Restoration: Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924)
3. To Live in the Wilderness as a Wild Creature Myself: Paul Errington (1902–1962)
4. The Wilds That Gave Us Birth: Scott Russell Sanders (B. 1945)
5. Poetics of Place in “North American Sequence”: Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
6. Landscapes of the Past: William Stafford (1914–1993)
7. Landscape and Language: Louise Erdrich (B. 1954)
8. Giving Voice to History: Diane Glancy (B. 1941)
9. Time’s Horizon: Elizabeth Dodd (B. 1962)
10. Islands of Time: Paul Gruchow (1947–2004)
Epilogue: Returning
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author
Index