Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
Contents
Writing the self through others -- Living the questions, writing the story : Sue Hubbell's A Country year -- An unnatural history made natural : Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge -- When all the world is cancerous : Bill Barich's laughing in the hills -- Constructing a self on the road : William Least Heat-Moon's Blue highways -- Pilgrimage to fashion a Zen self : Peter Matthiessen's The Snow leopard -- Making a home on the range : Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of open spaces and Western myths.