Monday, December 10, 2007
The Writers' Show - Writers’ Show - 33 - Don Gayton, Dick Cannings
Don Gayton is a grasslands ecologist and the author of many books, including Landscapes of the Interior: A Re-exploration of Nature and the Human Spirit and The Wheatgrass Mechanism. He reads from Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden, Thistledown Press. The music is Tom Waits.
Topics: from journal to prose, book covers, narrative arc in nature writing, discussion of the term "nature writing" as a genre and classification, his editor at Thistledown, Sean Virgo, with whom he had "a wonderful, extended conversation...a rich, rewarding editorial experience."
Dick Cannings is a biologist and bird advocate. In this brief segment that starts at the 30-minute mark, we talk about the Brown Pelican that came to Kootenay Lake, the first sighting in the interior of B.C. He also explains eBird, the Cornell University online database for birds, a resource for birders, beginner or proficient, across North America.
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