A Place on Earth: an Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America

This compelling anthology of nature writing brings together the work of several of Australia and North America's best known writers of this and other genres for the first time - Tim Winton, Charmian Clift, Barbara Blackman, Patrice Newell, Terry Tempest Williams and Barry Lopez all write about their "places" and what they mean to them.

This compelling anthology brings together leading Australian and North American nature writers for the first time. North America has been home, since Thoreau, to a rich literature dedicated to bringing places alive in the imagination of readers. In Australia, where nature writing as a genre is less established, there are, nevertheless, outstanding writers, such as Tim Winton, better known as a novelist, Eric Rolls and Charmian Clift, whose work is included here.

Responding to places that sustain, inspire, bewilder and sometimes sadden, the pieces are propelled by passion, anger, history, ecological imagination, spirituality, despair or deep personal experience. The places considered vary as much as any on earth, but what each piece has in common with the rest is beautiful, resonant writing.

Table of Contents

• Mark Tredinnick: Introduction
• Barbara Blackman: Symptoms of Place
• Charmian Clift: The Centre
• John Cameron: Beneath Capital Hill
• Tom Griffiths: Cooper Dreaming
• James Galvin: The Meadow
• Pete Hay: The Red Steer at Rat Bay
• Ashley Hay: Ultramarine
• John Haines: The Stars, The Snow, The Fire
• Linda Hogan: Creations
• William Kittredge: Reimagining Warner
• William J. Lines: Brave New World
• Barry Lopez: The Language of Animals
• Laurie Kutchins: Wind Ensemble
• Peter Matthiessen: The South Fork
• Michael McCoy: Home Ground
• Richard Nelson: Island of the Rain Bear
• Patrice Newell: A Rogaine
• David Quammen: Synecdoche and the Trout
• Eric Rolls: My Places
• Scott Russell Sanders: Buckeye
• Carolyn Servid: The Right Place for Love
• Gary Snyder: Kitkitdizze: A Node in the Net
• John Tallmadge: A Matter of Scale
• Mark Tredinnick: Falling Water
• Terry Tempest Williams: Labor
• Tim Winton: Landing