Gathering Moss A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses 1st Edition by Robin Wall Kimmerer ISBN 978-0870714993 0870714996

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ISBN 10:   0870714996

ISBN 13: 978-0870714993

Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.

Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.

Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science writing.

Table of contents: 

1. Preface

2. Seeing the World Through Moss-Colored Glasses

3. The Standing Stones

4. Learning to See

5. The Advantages of Being Small: Life in the Boundary Layer

6. Back to the Pond

7. Sexual Asymmetry and the Satellite Sisters

8. An Affinity for Water

9. Binding Up the Wounds: Mosses in Ecological Succession

10. In the Forest of the Waterbear

11. Kickapoo

12. Choices

13. A Landscape of Chance

14. City Mosses

15. The Web of Reciprocity: Indigenous Uses of Moss

16. The Red Sneaker

17. Portrait of Splachnum

18. The Owner

19. The Forest Gives Thanks to the Mosses

20. The Bystander

21. Straw Into Gold

22. Suggestions for Further Reading

23. Index

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