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Singing stone : a natural history of the Escalante Canyons / Thomas Lowe Fleischner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 212 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585140731
  • 9780585140735
  • 9780874806199
  • 0874806194
  • 9780874806168
  • 087480616X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Singing stone.DDC classification:
  • 508.792/51 21
LOC classification:
  • QH105.U8 F58 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: From the Oxbow -- The Terrain of Delight -- Tales of Deep Time -- The Soul of Stone -- Upwarping and Downcutting -- The Work of a River -- The Texture of Life -- The Grace of Animals -- The Green Gift -- Mapping Life -- How Snakes Kiss -- Walking Upright -- Chipping Stone -- With Blade of Chert -- Here Comes Europe -- In the Promised Land -- "More Beauty Than I Can Bear" -- Home on the Range? -- A Reluctant Path Toward Policy -- Resisting Change -- Meanwhile, Back at the Fence -- Hungry for Fun -- The Concrete Curtain -- Forever Wild? -- The Governor in the Gym -- The Fun Boom -- Epilogue: The Evening Light Can Be Touched.
Summary: Integrating personal narrative and natural history, Singing Stone is ideal for curious visitors to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as well as students of environmental studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202).

Integrating personal narrative and natural history, Singing Stone is ideal for curious visitors to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as well as students of environmental studies.

Prologue: From the Oxbow -- The Terrain of Delight -- Tales of Deep Time -- The Soul of Stone -- Upwarping and Downcutting -- The Work of a River -- The Texture of Life -- The Grace of Animals -- The Green Gift -- Mapping Life -- How Snakes Kiss -- Walking Upright -- Chipping Stone -- With Blade of Chert -- Here Comes Europe -- In the Promised Land -- "More Beauty Than I Can Bear" -- Home on the Range? -- A Reluctant Path Toward Policy -- Resisting Change -- Meanwhile, Back at the Fence -- Hungry for Fun -- The Concrete Curtain -- Forever Wild? -- The Governor in the Gym -- The Fun Boom -- Epilogue: The Evening Light Can Be Touched.

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