Publication

1996 - Picador USA, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

50,750 words, Guess

Page Count

203 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • LibraryThing441372
  • Library of Congress Control Number96004262
  • OCLC Control Number34114346

Classifications

  • DDC304.2
  • LCCGF49 .D46 1996

Alternate Titles

  • Essays on nature, spirit and place

Description

These essays, by an exciting new voice in nature writing, combine the objectivity of a field notebook and the subjectivity of personal memoir. Tracing the subtle connections and tensions between wilderness and human culture, Deming explores our need for a place within the natural world. Inspired by four loved places - the northeast woods of her childhood, a remote Canadian island off the eastern seaboard, southeast Alaska, and the American southwest - the essays trace one woman's journey in search of a spiritual home. Throughout her sojourns in "temporary homelands," Deming reflects on natural harmony and the discord with the natural world that our culture has created.

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