At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place — Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin — author Mark Tredinnick considers how writers transmute the power of nature into words. Each author is profiled in a separate chapter written in rich, engaging prose that reads like the best journalism, and Tredinnick concludes with his own thoughts on what it takes to be "an authentic witness of place."
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| The Wild Music of Places: An Introduction |
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Blue Plateau, New South Wales |
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The Essential Prose of Things |
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McKenzie River Valley, Oregon |
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The Heart of an Arid Land |
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Boulder Ridge and Sheep Creek, Wyoming-Colorado Border; Iowa City, Iowa |
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Catching the Lyric of the Country: A Conclusion |
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Lavender Bay and the Blue Plateau, New South Wales |
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Nature Writing, Other Prose, and Poetry |
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Scholarly Works, Texts, Guides, and References |
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Mark Tredinnick is an essayist, poet, and writing teacher. He is the author of The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir and the editor of A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America. His essays and journalism have appeared in Island, ISLE, Orion, Resurgence, the Bulletin, and the Sydney Morning Herald. Winner of the 2005 Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize, Tredinnick lives in the highlands southwest of Sydney, Australia.
