Language of the Earth: A Literary Anthology, 2nd Edition

Preface from the first edition.

Acknowledgments from the first edition.

Part I: The Earth Experienced.

1. Eyewitness Accounts of Earth Events.

1.1. John McPhee: Los Angeles Against the Mountains.

1.2. Gordon Gaskill: The Night the Mountain Fell.

1.3. R.G. McConnell and R.W. Brock: The Turtle Mountain Slide.

1.4. Voltaire: Candide.

1.5. James R. Newman: The Lisbon Earthquake.

1.6. Mary Austin: The Temblor.

1.7. Jonathan Weiner: The Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake.

1.8. Francis P. Shepard: Tsunami.

1.9. Haroun Tazieff: Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll.

1.10. Fairfax Downey: Last Days of St Pierre.

1.11. Hans Cloos: Beacons on the Passage Out.

1.12. Jon Thorlakson: Eruption of the Öraefajökull, 1727.

2. Exploration.

2.1. Charles Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle.

2.2. Simon Winchester: The Map that Changed the World.

2.3. John Wesley Powell: The Exploration of the Colorado River.

2.4. William H. Brewer: Mono Lake–Aurora–Sonora Pass.

2.5. George F. Sternberg: Thrills in Fossil Hunting.

2.6. John E. Pfeiffer: The Creative Explosion.

2.7. George Gaylord Simpson: Attending Marvels: a Patagonian Journal.

2.8. Robert D. Ballard: Explorations.

2.9. Louise B. Young: The Blue Planet.

3. Geologists are also Human.

3.1. Stephen Drury: Stepping Stones.

3.2. Elizabeth O.B. Gordon: William Buckland.

3.3. Hugh Miller: The Old Red Sandstone.

3.4. Sir Archibald Geikie: A Long Life’s Work.

3.5. Frank H.T. Rhodes: Life, Time, and Darwin.

3.6. R.A. Bartlett: King’s Formative Years.

3.7. M.E. David: With Shackleton in the Antarctic.

3.8. William H. Goetzmann: The Great Diamond Hoax.

3.9. Luna B. Leopold, Paul D. Komar, and Vance Haynes: Sand, Wind, and War.

3.10. Hans Cloos: Ship’s Wake.

4. Celebrities.

4.1. H. Stommel: Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream.

4.2. Thomas Clements: Leonardo da Vinci as a Geologist.

4.3. R. Magnus: Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology.

4.4. E.T. Martin: Megalonyx, Mammoth, and Mother Earth.

4.5. William A. Stanley: Three Short, Happy Months.

4.6. W.G. Collingwood: Mountain-Worship.

4.7. Herbert C. Hoover: Stanford University, 1891–1895.

Part II: Interpreting the Earth.

5. Philosophy.

5.1. James Hutton: Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability.

5.2. T.C. Chamberlin: The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses.

5.3. George G. Simpson: Historical Science.

5.4. Stephen Jay Gould: What is a Species?.

5.5. Christine Turner: Messages in Stone.

5.6. Marcia G. Bjørnerud: Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature.

5.7. Ian Stewart: Does God Play Dice?.

6. The Fossil Record.

6.1. Frank H.T. Rhodes: Earth and Man.

6.2. Donald Culross Peattie: Flowering Earth.

6.3. Robert Claiborne: Habits and Habitats.

6.4. James A. Michener: Diplodocus, the Dinosaur.

6.5. Berton Roueché: A Window on the Oligocene.

6.6. Samantha Weinberg: A Fish Caught in Time.

6.7. Richard E. Leakey: Ape-like Ancestors.

6.8. Loren Eiseley: The Relic Men.

7. Geotectonics.

7.1. James A. Michener: From the Boundless Deep & the Birth of the Rockies.

7.2. Anna Grayson: When Pigs Ruled the Earth.

7.3. David Attenborough: The Living Planet.

7.4. William Glen: The Road to Jaramillo.

7.5. J. Tuzo Wilson: Mao’s Almanac: 3,000 years of Killer Earthquakes.

7.6. Richard H. Jahns: Geologic Jeopardy.

8. Controversies.

8.1. William Irvine: Apes, Angels, and Victorians.

8.2. William L. Straus, Jr.: The Great Piltdown Hoax.

8.3. Howard S. Miller: Fossils and Free Enterprisers.

8.4. Charles Officer and Jake Page: The K-T Extinction.

8.5. Sir Archibald Geikie: The Founders of Geology.

8.6. Don E. Wilhelms: To a Rocky Moon.

8.7. Edward Schreiber and Orson L. Anderson: Properties and Composition of Lunar Materials: Earth Analogies.

8.8. Joel L. Swerdlow: CFCs.

Part III: Language of the Earth.

9. Prose.

9.1. Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa.

9.2. T.E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

9.3. Ernest Hemingway: Green Hills of Africa.

9.4. Antoine de St Exupéry: Wind, Sand and Stars.

9.5. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

9.6. John Muir: Trip to the Middle and North Forks of San Joaquin River.

9.7. Mark Twain: Roughing It.

9.8. Thomas Fairchild Sherman: A Place on the Glacial Till.

9.9. John McPhee: Basin and Range.

9.10. John Darnton: Neanderthal.

9.11. Kim Stanley Robinson: Antarctica.

9.12. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World.

10. Poetry.

10.1. Sir Archibald Geikie: Landscape and Literature.

10.2. William Wordsworth: The Excursion.

10.3. Voltaire: The Lisbon Earthquake.

10.4. C.S. Rafinesque: The Fountains of the Earth.

10.5. Timothy A. Conrad: To a Trilobite.

10.6. A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad.

10.7. Andrew C. Lawson: Mente et Malleo.

10.8. John Stuart Blackie: Selected poems.

10.9. Kenneth Rexroth: Lyell’s Hypothesis Again.

10.10. A.R. Ammons: Selected poems.

10.11. Charles Simic: Stone.

10.12. J.T. Barbarese: Fossils.

10.13. Jane Hirshfield: Rock.

10.14. W. Scott McLean, Eldridge M. Moores, and David A. Robertson: Poetry Matters: Gary Snyder.

10.15. The Book of Job: Where Shall Wisdom be Found?.

11. Art.

11.1. Jacquetta Hawkes: A Land: Sculpture.

11.2. Jack Burnham: Beyond Modern Sculpture.

11.3. Elizabeth C. Childs: Time’s Profile: John Wesley Powell, Art, and Geology at the Grand Canyon.

11.4. R.A. Bartlett: Thomas Moran: American Landscape Painter.

11.5. Diane Ackerman: Earth Calling.

Part IV: The Crowded Planet.

12. Human History.

12.1. John D. Ridge: Minerals and World History.

12.2. Jacquetta Hawkes: A Land: Architecture.

12.3. Donald F. Eschman and Melvin G. Marcus: The Geologic and Topographic Setting of Cities.

12.4. Douglas W. Johnson: Topography and Strategy in the War.

12.5. John McPhee: Geology and Crime.

12.6. Kenneth E.F. Watt: Tambora and Krakatau.

12.7. Lord Ritchie-Calder: Mortgaging the Old Homestead.

12.8. Harlow Shapley: Breathing the Future and the Past.

13. Resources.

13.1. Rachel L. Carson: Wealth from the Salt Seas.

13.2. Charles F. Park, Jr: Minerals, People, and the Future.

13.3. M. Dane Picard: The Bingham Canyon Pit.

13.4. John G.C.M. Fuller: The Geological Attitude.

13.5. Michel T. Halbouty: Geology – for Human Needs.

14. Benevolent Planet.

14.1. James Lovelock: GAIA.

14.2. Fritjof Capra: The Web of Life.

14.3. Charles Morgan: Remember the Land.

14.4. Gabriele Kass-Simon: Rachel Carson: The Idea of Environment.

14.5. Rachel Carson: Silent Spring.

14.6. S. George Philander: Who is El Niño?.

14.7. National Research Council: Essay on the Earth Sciences.

14.8. Diana Ackerman: The Round Walls of Home.

14.9. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr: The Butterfly Effect.

14.10. Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot.

Sources.

Index.