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Table of contents :
The way back home / Beth Powning -- A desperate clarity / Bill McKibben -- Land / David Adams Richards -- The requiem shark / Robert Drewe -- Sacred grove / Jennifer Potter -- THe same river twice : stenothermal waters and the remorseless flow of time / David Quammen -- Living inside the landscape / Sharon Butala -- A Texas childhood / Rick Bass -- Cryogenics : a symposium / Margaret Atwood -- Taking a shower with William Hazlitt / David Reynolds -- The day the waylakas dance / Wade Davis -- The deer in springtime / Diane Ackerman -- Space and time enough / Timothy Findley -- Catching an epiphany / David Suzuki -- Out of a wild sea / Richard Flanagan

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