The Resource Because it is so beautiful : unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection, by Robert Leonard Reid
Because it is so beautiful : unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection, by Robert Leonard Reid
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The item Because it is so beautiful : unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection, by Robert Leonard Reid represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- Taking its title from an affecting speech given by renowned author Barry Lopez, Because It Is So Beautiful is a response to desperate questions surrounding the protection and preservation of America's wildlands. Lopez asserted that wilderness activists will never achieve the success they seek until they can testify before legislators that a certain river or mountain must be saved not because of its economic importance or its recreational, historical, or scientific value, but because it is so beautiful. The words resonated with young mountaineer-musician-mathematician Robert Leonard Reid, who was struggling to understand his relationship to the world, to find his vision as a writer. What he learned on that long-ago evening is that to save a wilderness or indeed even to live one's life you must reach deep into your heart and find what is there, then speak it plainly and without shame. This belief is knit throughout the nineteen pieces in the collection, which include essays from Reid's previous books Arctic Circle, Mountains of the Great Blue Dream, and America, New Mexico, three essays that appear here in print for the first time, as well as revised and expanded versions of essays that appeared in Touchstone, The Progressive, and elsewhere
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xii, 308 pages
- Note
- "June 2017"--Title page verso
- Contents
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- To live one's life
- West, to the future
- From America, New Mexico
- The condor's last flight
- Ling-Ling has killed another baby
- A poem, gathering in my mind
- Intruders on a lifeless ridge
- From Arctic Circle (six excerpts)
- The fire and the rose
- From Mountains of the great blue dream
- Isbn
- 9781619029293
- Label
- Because it is so beautiful : unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection
- Title
- Because it is so beautiful
- Title remainder
- unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection
- Statement of responsibility
- by Robert Leonard Reid
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Taking its title from an affecting speech given by renowned author Barry Lopez, Because It Is So Beautiful is a response to desperate questions surrounding the protection and preservation of America's wildlands. Lopez asserted that wilderness activists will never achieve the success they seek until they can testify before legislators that a certain river or mountain must be saved not because of its economic importance or its recreational, historical, or scientific value, but because it is so beautiful. The words resonated with young mountaineer-musician-mathematician Robert Leonard Reid, who was struggling to understand his relationship to the world, to find his vision as a writer. What he learned on that long-ago evening is that to save a wilderness or indeed even to live one's life you must reach deep into your heart and find what is there, then speak it plainly and without shame. This belief is knit throughout the nineteen pieces in the collection, which include essays from Reid's previous books Arctic Circle, Mountains of the Great Blue Dream, and America, New Mexico, three essays that appear here in print for the first time, as well as revised and expanded versions of essays that appeared in Touchstone, The Progressive, and elsewhere
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Reid, Robert Leonard
- Dewey number
- 333.720978
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nature conservation
- Natural areas
- Natural areas
- Nature conservation
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- NATURE / Essays
- United States, West
- Label
- Because it is so beautiful : unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection, by Robert Leonard Reid
- Note
- "June 2017"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- To live one's life -- West, to the future -- From America, New Mexico -- The condor's last flight -- Ling-Ling has killed another baby -- A poem, gathering in my mind -- Intruders on a lifeless ridge -- From Arctic Circle (six excerpts) -- The fire and the rose -- From Mountains of the great blue dream
- Control code
- 1905713
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xii, 308 pages
- Isbn
- 9781619029293
- Lccn
- 2017004084
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781619029293
- (OCoLC)982465122
- Label
- Because it is so beautiful : unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection, by Robert Leonard Reid
- Note
- "June 2017"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- To live one's life -- West, to the future -- From America, New Mexico -- The condor's last flight -- Ling-Ling has killed another baby -- A poem, gathering in my mind -- Intruders on a lifeless ridge -- From Arctic Circle (six excerpts) -- The fire and the rose -- From Mountains of the great blue dream
- Control code
- 1905713
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xii, 308 pages
- Isbn
- 9781619029293
- Lccn
- 2017004084
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781619029293
- (OCoLC)982465122
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