Heart of the land: essays on last great places

Winter solstice at the Moab Slough (Colorado Plateau, Utah) / Terry Tempest Williams

On Willow Creek (Texas Hill Country) / Rick Bass

Wild again (The Adirondack Mountains, New York) / Bill McKibben

Lake of the Stone Mother (Sillwater Marsh and Pyramid Lake, Nevada) / David James Duncan

The Most patient of animals (Clinch Valley, Virginia) / Joel Achenbach

On the Henry's Fork (Snake River, Idaho) / Thomas McGuane

Of beaches, bays, and my boyhood with the Colonel (The Atlantic Barrier Islands, Virginia) / William W. Warner

Last of the falling tide (The Florida Keys) / Carl Hiaasen

Journey to the lost city of the jaguar (Río Bravo, Belize) / Gioconda Belli

Natural history crashes, resurfaces (Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, California) / Gary Paul Nabhan

Creations (Ría Lagartos and Ría Celestún, Yucatán, Mexico) / Linda Hogan

Playing God on the lawns of the lord (Osage County, Oklahoma) / Teresa Jordan

Reimagining Warner, (Warner Valley, Oregon) / William Kittredge

The Far north people (Northern Continental Divide, Montana) / James Welch

The Beginner's mind (Gray Ranch, New Mexico) / Jim Harrison

Big grass (Northern Tallgrass Prairie, North Dakota) / Louise Erdrich

Back home again (Big Darby Creek, Ohio) / Ann Zwinger

No space to waste (Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts) / Philip Caputo

A Place of grace (Block Island, Rhode Island) / Jill Nelson

Scrub, beautiful scrub (Lake Wales Ridge, Florida) / John Jerome

On the trail of Walking James (Willapa Bay, Washington) / Pam Houston

The lost land of Ka-Zar (Dos Palmas Oasis, California) / Annick Smith

The Quetzal, the parakeet, and the jaguar (Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala) / Victor Perera

Promises (ACE River Basin, South Carolina) / Dorothy Allison

Upon this river (The San Pedro River, Arizona) / William Least Heat-Moon

The Betrayal of Jack (The Yampa River, Colorado) / Charles Wilkinson

Where the sky was born (Sian Ka'an, Quintana Roo, Mexico) / Homero Aridjis

The Rock Islands (Palau, Micronesia) / Paul Theroux

Great River (Peconic Bay, New York) / Peter Matthiessen

The Memory place (Horse Lick Creek, Kentucky) / Barbara Kingsolver.