Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky: Brushes with Nature's Wisdom: Sightline Books
Autor Trudy Dittmaren Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2003
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780877458722
ISBN-10: 0877458723
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 146 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
Seria Sightline Books
ISBN-10: 0877458723
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 146 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
Seria Sightline Books
Recenzii
“Dittmar, who won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’ Award in 2000 and whose writings have appeared in numerous publications . . . provides a fascinating look at natural and personal history in these ten essays on animals, plants, and other natural phenomena. . . . An excellent choice for both public and academic libraries.”—Library Journal
“Trudy Dittmar is an elegant stylist and an acute observer. She's read everything there is to read about the physics of rainbows, the habits of the porcupine, the winter survival skills of the moose and the orbits of the planets, but even her learning is outdistanced by her patient powers of looking, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting. Her originality arises out of this patience. And, magically, she is able to read into and out of the rich, endangered natural world an Emersonian understanding of self. This is at once the most objective and subjective book I have ever read.”—Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story
“Honest self-scrutiny is irresistible, especially when told with a knack for diction of place, as this author demonstrates on every page. She is both of the landscape and an informed observer of it, willing to examine her conflicts between the experiences that play in her imagination and the scientific knowledge she’s gleaned through training and reading.”—The Bloomsbury Review