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288  Recent years have yielded an abundant crop of Lewis-related books of interest to both scholars and general readers. The following are books that we have found helpful in preparing our book and that we think general readers will find both interesting and accessible. It is, of course, by no means an exhaustive list of books relevant to Lewis’s ecological vision. In the general area of ecology and nature writing only, even if we exclude fiction and poetry and limit ourselves to nonfiction, there is a wealth of wonderful writing spanning at least three centuries and writers from H. D. Thoreau to Annie Dillard. Bill McKibben has suggested that the nature-writing tradition may be America’s great and unique contribution to world literature. However, in keeping with an important principle of ecology, namely, the finitude of the created world and its resources, below is a minimal list of books to get the interested reader started. C. S. Lewis: Biography Griffin, William. C. S. Lewis: The Authentic Voice. Oxford: Lion, 1986. Hooper, Walter. C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide. New York: HarperCollins , 1996. Jacobs, Alan. The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis. San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. Sayer, George. Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times. San Franciso: Harper & Row, 1988. C. S. Lewis: Fantasy Literature Dickerson, Matthew, and David O’Hara. From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook of Myth and Fantasy. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2006. Downing, David C. Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. Glover, Donald. C. S. Lewis: The Art of Enchantment. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981. Recommended Reading Recommended Reading 289 Howard, Thomas. Narnia and Beyond: A Guide to the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006. Note that this book is a new edition of a book previously titled C. S. Lewis: Man of Letters: A Reading of His Fiction, published by Ignatius in 1990, and The Achievement of C. S. Lewis (Wheaton, Ill.: Harold Shaw, 1980). Schakel, Peter J. Reading with the Heart: The Way into Narnia. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1979. Ward, Michael. Planet Narnia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Ecology and Literature Dickerson, Matthew, and Jonathan Evans. Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Finch, Robert, and John Elder, eds. Nature Writing: The Tradition in English. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. McKibben, Bill, ed. American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau. New York: Library of America, 2008. Ecology and Christianity Berry, Wendell. The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, edited by Norman Wirzba. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2002. Bouma-Prediger, Steven. For the Beauty of the Earth. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2001. Joranson, Philip N., and Ken Butigan, eds. Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition. Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1984. Larsen, Dale, and Sandy Larsen. While Creation Waits: A Christian Response to the Environmental Challenge. Wheaton, Ill.: Harold Shaw, 1992. Moore, T. M. Consider the Lilies. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R Publishing, 2005. Sherrard, Philip. The Rape of Man and Nature. Ipswich, U.K.: Golgonooza, 1987. Wirzba, Norman. The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ...

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