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Book Synopsis
In these twenty-nine essays, one of America’s top nature writers trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the natural world.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: Musical Chairs
  • Barely, New Jersey
  • Common Ground
  • Nothing but the Wind
  • Babes in the Woods
  • Before the Echo
  • Cast of Stars
  • Chasing Shadows
  • Hope
  • Dear Floyd
  • Ice Out
  • Onion Snow
  • For the Span of a Firefly's Light
  • The Perfect Table
  • Why Lawns?
  • The Ultimate Joystick
  • TV Nature; Throwing Stones
  • Zen and the Art of Throwing Metal
  • Revenge of the Jabberwock
  • Dialogue with Ms. D'Vil
  • Cruelty and Turtles
  • For a Tide
  • Falling in Ernest
  • Spent Shot Shell
  • This Thing of Mine and Yours
  • Epistle to Be Left in the Leaves
  • Mus Ado about Something
  • Season's First Snow
  • Ode to Ma'am Dog
  • The Fox Who Ran Forever

Before the Echo

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    A Paperback / softback by Pete Dunne, Diana Marlinski

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      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 1 February 2011
      ISBN-13 9780292735644
      978-0292735644
      ISBN-10 0292735642

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In these twenty-nine essays, one of America’s top nature writers trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the natural world.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Preface: Musical Chairs
      • Barely, New Jersey
      • Common Ground
      • Nothing but the Wind
      • Babes in the Woods
      • Before the Echo
      • Cast of Stars
      • Chasing Shadows
      • Hope
      • Dear Floyd
      • Ice Out
      • Onion Snow
      • For the Span of a Firefly's Light
      • The Perfect Table
      • Why Lawns?
      • The Ultimate Joystick
      • TV Nature; Throwing Stones
      • Zen and the Art of Throwing Metal
      • Revenge of the Jabberwock
      • Dialogue with Ms. D'Vil
      • Cruelty and Turtles
      • For a Tide
      • Falling in Ernest
      • Spent Shot Shell
      • This Thing of Mine and Yours
      • Epistle to Be Left in the Leaves
      • Mus Ado about Something
      • Season's First Snow
      • Ode to Ma'am Dog
      • The Fox Who Ran Forever

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