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Califauna : a literary field guide / edited by Terry Beers and Emily Elrod.
- Title
- Califauna : a literary field guide / edited by Terry Beers and Emily Elrod.
- Publication
- Santa Clara, Calif. : Santa Clara University ; Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS571.C2 C275 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 293 p., [16] p. of playes : ill. (chiefly col.); 23 cm.
- Summary
- This volume is an anthology that features writings on 52 animals that reside in the "Golden State", from cats and dogs to the California condor and humpback whale. This work introduces brief essays, fiction, and poetry by authors including John Muir, John Steinbeck, Barry Lopez, and Ursula LeGuin; Native American tales; and accounts by early explorers. These are complemented by animal profiles, color art illustrations, author sketches, and a timeline of animal-related milestones in the state's history.
- Series Statement
- A California legacy book.
- Uniform Title
- California legacy book.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Literary collections
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 286) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Red abalone : Origin of the abalone / Gladys Nomland ; The abalone song / George Sterling -- Giant carpenter ant : Biters / John Muir -- Grizzly bear : My grizzly bear / Jessie Benton Fremont ; The grizzly as Fremont found him / Joaquin Miller -- Honeybee : The bee-pastures / John Muir -- Stink beetle : Cannery row / John Steinbeck -- Burro : From the wonders of the Colorado desert / George Wharton James -- Cabezon : On the coast near Sausalito / Robert Hass -- Cat : My thing abt cats / Ishmael Reed -- from Roughing it / Mark Twain -- California condor : Condor dreams / Gerald Haslam -- Cow and ox : The purple cow : The purple cow: suite / Gelett Burgess : From sixty years in California / William Heath Davis -- From California vaquero / Arnold R. Rojas -- Coyote : From Tthe tortilla curtain / T.C. Boyle ; Coyote's journey (from Karuk) / William Bright ; Coyote baptizes the chickens / Alejandrina Murillo Melendres -- Mule deer : Dose / Darryl Babe Wilson -- American dipper : The water ouzel / Harriet Monroe ; The water-ouzel / John Muir -- Dog ; The go-betweens / Mary Austin ; To Sergie my sweet old dog who died in old age / Floyd Salas -- Dolphin : The dolphin walking stick / Georgiana Voloyce-Sanchez -- Mourning dove : To the happy hunting grounds / Ambrose Bierce -- Mallard duck : from Fup / Jim Dodge -- Elk : from Unwritten history: life amongst the Modocs / Joaquin Miller -- Human flea : from What i saw in California / Edwin Bryant -- Red-legged frog : The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Gila monster : from Wonders of the Colorado Desert / George Wharton James -- Snow goose : A reflection on white geese / Barry Lopez -- Pocket Gopher : from Cannery row / John Steinbeck -- Red-tailed hawk : Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark ; Hawk is a woman / Hildegarde Flanner -- Horse : from A boy on horseback / Lincoln Steffens -- Steller's Jay : from The birds of California / William Dawson ; from White poplar, black locust / Louise Wagenknecht -- Desert horned lizard -- from My name is Aram / William Saroyan -- Western Fence Lizard : from Epitaph for a peach / David Mas Masumoto -- Louse : from Ghost town / G. Ezra Dane -- Mosquito : from Scenes of wonder and curiosity / James Hutchings -- Mountain lion : The lady and the mountain lion / Charles Bukowski ; The California lion / Charles Lummis -- Pocket Mouse : Perognathus fallax / Steve Kowit -- Mule : from Illustrated sketches of Death Valley / John Spears -- Giant Pacific octopus : from Journey of the flame / Walter Nordhoff -- Sea otter : from Marine mammals of the Northwestern coast of North America / Charles Melville Scammon -- Great horned owl : The man and the owl / Yokuts -- California quail : The White quail / John Steinbeck -- Rabbit : Rabbit crazy / Frank Lapena -- Common raccoon : Raccoon / Kenneth Rexroth -- Rat : The rats of Sacramento / William K. McGrew -- Western rattlesnake : The girl who married rattlesnake / Charles Brown ; Rattlesnakes / Bill Hotchkiss -- King salmon : from a Gil Blas in California / Andre Dumas ; from Totem salmon / Freeman House -- Sheep : The flock / Mary Austin ; from Ramona / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Desert tarantula : from Wonders of the Colorado Desert / George Wharton James -- California western toad : Gardening with pests / David Rains Wallace -- Rainbow trout : from Trout fishing in America / Richard Brautigan ; Steelhead, the trickster / Austin D. Warburton -- Turkey vulture : Vulture / Robinson Jeffers ; The black vulture / George Sterling -- Long-tailed weasel : from One day at Beetle Rock / Sally Carrighar -- Humpback whale : from Two years before the mast / Richard Dana ; Humphrey: goodwill ambassador / David Rains Wallace -- Killer whale : Orca / Robinson Jeffers -- Gray wolf : from White fang / Jack London ; The theft of pine nuts / Julian H. Steward -- Acorn woodpecker : What is going on in the oaks around the barn / Ursula K. Le Guin.
- ISBN
- 9781597140492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 159714049X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2006035818
- OCLC
- 74915784
- SCSB-12392375
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library