Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

177, [1] pp. 8vo. "Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings." CONTENTS: Living Like Weasels; An Expedition to the Pole; In the Jungle; The Deer at Providencia; Teaching a Stone to Talk; On a Hill Far Away; Total Eclipse; Lenses; Life on the Rocks: Galapagos; A Field of Silence; God in the Doorway; Mirages; Sojourner; Aces and Eights.