SHEPHERDS OF PAN ON THE BIG SUR-MONTEREY COAST is a medley of lively, literate essays about the Nature wisdom linking some unlikely bedfellows: Robert Louis Stevenson, Gertrude Atherton, Jack London, Robinson Jeffers, Jaime de Angulo, John Steinbeck, Eric Barker, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and others, with a pertinent postscript on William James, father of American psychology. All these luminaries came to perceive divinity in the awesome, double-dealing power of Nature, symbolized by the Greek god Pan. Many became pantheists, or nature mystics, under the spell of the alternately soft and violent landscape of California´s central coast. The book is a multicolored meditation on a deeply rooted -- and often overlooked -- human need to reconnect with Nature, wellspring of our inner joy and psychic wholeness. ELAYNE WAREING FITZPATRICK (BA English, MS Philosophy) was a city desk reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune, promotion director of Utah´s public television station, and an associate professor at the University of Utah before moving to California in 1974 to teach Philosophy and Humanities at Monterey Peninsula College. She is also a freelance journalist who travels to, and writes about, Nature´s romantic places. She has authored four books: Shepherds of Pan on the Big Sur-Monterey Coast; A Quixotic Companionship: Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson; Robert Louis Stevenson´s Ethics for Rascals; and Doing It With the Cosmos: Henry Miller´s Big Sur Struggle for Love Beyond Sex. Her essays and features have appeared in many periodicals. Used Book in Good Condition