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• Title:Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses / by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
  
• Published/Created:Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2003.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QK537 .K56 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-04-2024
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QK537 .K56 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-21-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
  Mosses.
  Mosses--Ecology.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:viii, 168 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:"In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads 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. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165) and index.
  
• ISBN:0870714996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Preface: Seeing the World Through Moss-Colored Glasses
  The Standing Stones
  Learning to See
  The Advantages of Being Small: Life in the Boundary Layer
  Back to the Pond
  Sexual Asymmetry and the Satellite Sisters
  An Affinity for Water
  Binding Up the Wounds: Mosses in Ecological Succession
  In the Forest of the Waterbear
  Kickapoo
  Choices
  A Landscape of Chance
  City Mosses
  The Web of Reciprocity: Indigenous Uses of Moss
  The Red Sneaker
  Portrait of Splachnum
  The Owner
  The Forest Gives Thanks to the Mosses
  The Bystander
  Straw Into Gold.