{"product_id":"before-the-echo-essays-on-nature-paperback-softback-9780292735644","title":"Before the Echo; Essays on Nature (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292735644","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBefore the Echo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePete Dunne (Author), Diana Marlinski (Illustrated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292735644\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 February 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e156 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The natural world is a lot like a game of musical chairs,\" observes Pete Dunne. \"Everywhere you turn, everywhere you go, there are places where living things sit down, niches that support their specific needs. But just as in musical chairs, there aren't enough places to go around. Our species keeps removing them-forcing other creatures to leave the game.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these twenty-nine essays, one of America's top nature writers trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the natural world. Writing to infuse others with a sense of the richness and diversity that nature holds, Pete Dunne ranges over topics from the wonder of the year's first snowfall to the lost art of stargazing to the mysterious forces that impel people to hunt-and not to hunt. Running like a thread through all the essays is Dunne's desire to preserve all that is \"natural\" in nature, to stop our unthinking destruction of wild places and wild creatures before we humans find ourselves with \"the last chair, in an empty room\" on an impoverished earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface: Musical Chairs \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Barely, New Jersey \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Common Ground \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Nothing but the Wind \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Babes in the Woods \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Before the Echo \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cast of Stars \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chasing Shadows \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hope \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dear Floyd \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ice Out \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Onion Snow \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e For the Span of a Firefly's Light \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Perfect Table \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Why Lawns? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Ultimate Joystick \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e TV Nature\u003cbr\u003e Throwing Stones \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Zen and the Art of Throwing Metal \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Revenge of the Jabberwock \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dialogue with Ms. D'Vil \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cruelty and Turtles \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e For a Tide \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Falling in Ernest \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Spent Shot Shell \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e This Thing of Mine and Yours \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epistle to Be Left in the Leaves \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mus Ado about Something \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Season's First Snow \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ode to Ma'am Dog \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Fox Who Ran Forever \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530865275160,"sku":"9780292735644","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/before-the-echo-essays-on-nature-paperback-softback-9780292735644","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}