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In Off the Beaten Path, readers are brought on a literary journey through wild and wonderful landscapes in an anthology that focuses on conservation in an unusual way -- by exploring the importance of place through the short story. The Nature Conservancy, long dedicated to the preservation of wild places, asked writers to visit one of its preserves or write from past experience outdoors, allowing a place to trigger their imaginations and make a story possible. Several authors were inspired by the landscapes of their youth (Jill McCorkle's North Carolina woods, or Richard Bausch's Blue Ridge Mountains), while others explored territory unfamiliar to them, such as Eric Lustbader, who trekked to Alaska.

The contributors to Off the Beaten Path include many of our finest writers: Julia Alvarez, Rick Bass, Rita Mae Brown, Gretel Ehrlich, Barry Lopez, Howard Norman, and E. Annie Proulx. From the ominous to the humorous, from the tall tale to the meditative monologue, these stories reflect the variety and character of our diminishing wildland and, in the end, lead us to places in ourselves that only the best fiction can reveal


ISBN-13

9780865475304

ISBN-10

086547530X

Weight

0.95 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 1.00 x 8.50 In

List Price

$24.00

Format

Hardcover

Pages

224 pages

Publisher

North Point Pr

Published On

1998-05-01



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