Paradise Notebooks (eBook)

90 Miles across the Sierra Nevada

Richard J. Nevle, Steven Nightingale (Autoren)

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2022
192 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6280-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In The Paradise Notebooks, Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact.Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, Nevle and Nightingale contemplate the natural phenomena found in the Sierra Nevada. From granite to aspen, to fire, to a rare, endemic species of butterfly, these essay pairs explore the natural history and mystical wonder of each element with a balanced and captivating touch. As they weave in vignettes from their ninety-mile backpacking trip across the range, Nevle and Nightingale powerfully reconceive the Sierra Nevada as both earthly matter and transcendental offering, letting us into a reality in which nature holds just as much spiritual importance as it does physical.In a time of rapid environmental degradation, The Paradise Notebooks offers a way forward-a whole-minded, learned, loving attention to place that rekindles our joyful relationship with the living world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2022
• Illustrationen: Mattias Lanas
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-6280-X / 150176280X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-6280-2 / 9781501762802