Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship with the Natural World

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold's Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmental philosophy? Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World provides a series of reflections by an environmental educator about lessons learned from time spent in nature. Originally conceived as personal letters to the author's daughter, this collection presents ethical questions outdoor enthusiasts regularly face as they work and play in the natural world. The essays in this book explore environmentalism in a modern-day context, with topics including sustainability education, the current relevance of environmental writers from the past, and the uncertainty of what is meant by words like "naturalist," "solitude," and "wilderness." There is no attempt to direct readers to any particular environmental philosophy. Instead, Simpson encourages readers to articulate their own perspective based on personal experiences in nature. Though Essays to My Daughter is written by a father to his daughter, the insights within the volume-and the questions they provoke-are valuable to all members of the next generation as they grapple with their own relationship to the natural world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-10-15
Mått139 x 215 x 11 mm
Vikt151 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor212
FörlagPurdue University Press
ISBN9781612497839

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Steven Simpson's career spans three related disciplines and two continents. As a Fulbright scholar in the early 1990s, he left Iowa State University to teach at National Taiwan University. More recently, he taught environmental education, outdoor recreation, and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and National Taiwan Normal University's Graduate Institute of Environmental Education. Prior to academia, he worked as a naturalist in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California. Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship With the Natural World is his fifth book.

PrefaceIntroduction: Personal Philosophy and Individual ExperiencesPart I: The Pond and the Shack1 The Good Oak Redux2 Drowning Out All Our Muskrats3 Wild Apples4 Still Fishing5 A Person's Leisure Time6 Book Purge Part II: Sketches Here and There7 Wisconsin East: A Small Square of Red8 California With a Touch of Maine: Tide Pools East and West9 Minnesota: Night of the Quintze10 Iowa: The Birds of Iowa11 Taiwan: Ascent of Jade Mountain12 A Return to Taiwan: Old and American13 Ontario: Goodbye, Deadbroke Island14 Wisconsin West: Mark Twain on the Mekong15 Wisconsin West: What About the Other Kids?16 Three Outsdoorsmen and a PhilosopherPart III: Continuums17 The Preservationist and the Conservationist18 The Wanderer and the Adventurer19 The Homecomer and the Sojourner20 The Romantic and the Scientist21 The RestorerEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesAbout the Author