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Author:   Rod Giblett
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   Hamilton Books
ISBN:  

9780761872788

ISBN 10:   0761872787
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   15 July 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface I: Early to Later Life and Work Born in Borneo Brought up in Bible College Shaped by Place and Work Some Teachers Who Taught Me Something A Most Homely House and Habitat The Nexus: A Pro-Symbiotic, Anti-Fascist Ecology of Education Farewell to Forrestdale Climbing the Family Trees My Thoreauvian Pilgrimage Closing the Circles The Way of Taoism The Writer's Life The Writer's Desk Wading out of Wetlands The Blue Angel and the Mountain Dragon Up the Inner Passage Tanked Streamed: A Tale of Illness, a Tale of Woe II: Conversations in Conservation Counter-Theology: Twelve Minor Biblical Prophets and Twelve Major Environmental Apostles Hosea and Paul Virilio, the Patron Saint of Grey Ecology Joel and Rachel Carson, the Patron Saint of American Conservation Amos and Aldo Leopold, the Patron Saint of Marshes Obadiah and Judith Wright, the Patron Saint of Australian Conservation Jonah and St Margaret, the Patron Saint of Marshy Motherhood Micah and St George, the Patron Saint of England Nahum and Raymond Williams, the Patron Saint of Ecocultural Studies Habakkuk and St Francis, the Patron Saint of the Earth Zephaniahand Seamus Heaney, the Patron Saint of Bogs Haggaiand Henry David Thoreau, the Patron Saint of Swamps Zechariah and Walter Benjamin, the Patron Saint of Cultural Studies Malachi and John Muir, the Patron Saint of National Parks III: More New Saints: Twelve Minor Environmental Apostles John Clare: The Patron Saint of the Fens Walt Whitman: The Singer of the Song of the Earth Richard Jefferies: The Patron Saint of Being at Home on the Earth H. P. Lovecraft: American Singer of the Song of the Bog Lord Dunsany: The Singer of the Song of the Bog Albert Howard: The Patron Saint of Soil Conservation Elyne Mitchell: The Patron Saint of Australian Soil Conservation Felix Guattari: The Patron Saint of Third Ecology Rebecca Solnit: The Patron Saint of Progressive Politics Glenn Albrecht: The Patron Saint of the Symbiocene John Charles Ryan: The Patron Saint of Plants Charles Massy: The Patron Saint of Regenerative Farming Further Reading/Other Books and Book Chapters by Rod Giblett Bibliography Index About the Author

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Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Writing and Literature Program of the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University.

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