Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey
Autor Adam Weymouthen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2019
'Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a young Robert Macfarlane. He is, I have no doubt, a significant voice for the future' Andrew Holgate,Sunday Timesliterary editor
'Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers' Susan Hill
A captivating, lyrical account of an epic voyage by canoe down the Yukon River.
The Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most ruggedly beautiful and remote regions of North America, Adam Weymouth journeyed by canoe on a four-month odyssey through this untrammelled wilderness, encountering the people who have lived there for generations. The Yukon's inhabitants have long depended on the king salmon who each year migrate the entire river to reach their spawning grounds. Now the salmon numbers have dwindled, and the encroachment of the modern world has changed the way of life on the Yukon, perhaps for ever.
Weymouth's searing portraits of these people and landscapes offer an elegiac glimpse of a disappearing world.Kings of the Yukonis an extraordinary adventure, told by a powerful new voice.
Preț: 57.94 lei
Preț vechi: 69.47 lei
-17% Nou
Puncte Express: 87
Preț estimativ în valută:
11.09€ • 11.55$ • 9.22£
11.09€ • 11.55$ • 9.22£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 24 ianuarie-04 februarie 25
Livrare express 04-10 ianuarie 25 pentru 30.09 lei
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141983790
ISBN-10: 0141983795
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141983795
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Adam
Weymouth's
work
has
been
published
by
a
wide
variety
of
outlets
including
theGuardian,
theAtlanticand
theNew
Internationalist.
His
interest
in
the
relationship
between
humans
and
the
world
around
them
has
led
him
to
write
on
issues
of
climate
change
and
environmentalism,
and
most
recently,
to
the
Yukon
river
and
the
stories
of
the
communities
living
on
its
banks.
He
lives
on
a
100-year-old
Dutch
barge
on
the
River
Lea
in
London.
This
is
his
first
book.
Recenzii
Weymouth
combinesacute
political,
personal
and
ecological
understanding,
with
the
most
beautiful
writing
reminiscent
of
a
young
Robert
Macfarlane.
.
.
He
is,
I
have
no
doubt,
a
significant
voice
for
the
future
.
.
.a
really
outstanding
new
contemporary
British
voice.
.
.
I've
never
seen
such
a
strong
and
excited
consensus
among
the
judges
for
a
winner.
Lyrical... The elegiac tone that fillsKings of the Yukon, the sorrow at the loss of culture and nature in the wilderness, isan unavoidable reflection of life in the 21st century
Arich and fascinatingbook ... So vivid it reads like a thriller ...I was hooked
[Weymouth's] account ... isso assured, so accomplished, that I found it hard to believe it was his first book... rich in characters, and beautifully written.
An epic... Eloquent and tautly written
I was knocked sideways by this book and quite unexpectedly.Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers like Chatwin, Thubron, Leigh Fermor, in one bound. But like their books this is about so much more than just travel.
[A]brilliantaccount of a summer spent paddling the 2,000-mile length of the Yukon River...Kings of the Yukonsucceeds asan adventure tale,a natural history and a work of art. Its various threads of context and back story are woven seamlessly into the daily panorama of the river journey
Dazzling,often in unexpected ways, Adam Weymouth is a wonderful travel writer, nature writer, adventure writer - along the way, he is alsoa nuanced examiner of some of the world's most fraught and urgent questionsabout the interconnectedness of people and the natural world.
This is the best kind of travel writing. Weymouth embarks on an ambitious journey - 2,000 miles down the Yukon in a canoe - voyaging, listening and learning.An outstanding book
An enthralling accountof a literary and scientific quest. AdamWeymouthvividly conveys the raw grandeur and deep silences of the Yukon landscape, and endows his subject, the river's King Salmon, with a melancholy nobility
Adam Weymouth's account of his canoe trip down the Yukon River is bothstirring and heartbreaking. He ably describes a world that seems alternately untouched by human beings and teetering at the brink of ruin
Amoving, masterfulportrait of a river, the people who live on its banks, and the salmon that connect their lives to the land. It is at once travelogue, natural history, and a meditation on the sort of wildness of which we are intrinsically a part. AdamWeymouth deftly illuminates the symbiosis between humans and the natural world- a relationship so ancient, complex, and mysterious that it just might save us
Shift over Pierre Berton and Farley Mowat. You, too, Robert Service. Set another place at the table for Adam Weymouth, whowrites as powerfully and poetically about the Far North as any of the greats who went before him
Adam Weymouth writes of the YukonRiver, the salmon and the people,with language thatflows and ripples like the water he describes. There may be a smoothness to the words, but pay attention, there are deep undercurrents here.You can hear the water dripping from his paddlebetween each stroke as he travels that river. It mingles with the voices of the many people he visits along its shores
Beautiful, restrained, uncompromising. The narrative pulls you eagerly downstream roaring, chuckling and shimmering just like the mighty Yukon itself
An infatuated love letter to the river
I thoroughly enjoyed traveling the length of the Yukon River with Adam Weymouth, discovering the essential connection between the salmon and the people who rely upon them.What a joy it is to be immersed in such a remote and wondrous landscape, and what a pleasure to be in the hands of such a gifted narrator
This book isan important contribution to our understanding of threatened ecosystems and what it means to be human on the edge of ecological catastrophe. I loved thesensitive but deeply powerfulweave of pesca-poetry, knowledge and encounter that immersed me in the midst of the Yukon's forces and left me subtly transformed
Lyrical... The elegiac tone that fillsKings of the Yukon, the sorrow at the loss of culture and nature in the wilderness, isan unavoidable reflection of life in the 21st century
Arich and fascinatingbook ... So vivid it reads like a thriller ...I was hooked
[Weymouth's] account ... isso assured, so accomplished, that I found it hard to believe it was his first book... rich in characters, and beautifully written.
An epic... Eloquent and tautly written
I was knocked sideways by this book and quite unexpectedly.Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers like Chatwin, Thubron, Leigh Fermor, in one bound. But like their books this is about so much more than just travel.
[A]brilliantaccount of a summer spent paddling the 2,000-mile length of the Yukon River...Kings of the Yukonsucceeds asan adventure tale,a natural history and a work of art. Its various threads of context and back story are woven seamlessly into the daily panorama of the river journey
Dazzling,often in unexpected ways, Adam Weymouth is a wonderful travel writer, nature writer, adventure writer - along the way, he is alsoa nuanced examiner of some of the world's most fraught and urgent questionsabout the interconnectedness of people and the natural world.
This is the best kind of travel writing. Weymouth embarks on an ambitious journey - 2,000 miles down the Yukon in a canoe - voyaging, listening and learning.An outstanding book
An enthralling accountof a literary and scientific quest. AdamWeymouthvividly conveys the raw grandeur and deep silences of the Yukon landscape, and endows his subject, the river's King Salmon, with a melancholy nobility
Adam Weymouth's account of his canoe trip down the Yukon River is bothstirring and heartbreaking. He ably describes a world that seems alternately untouched by human beings and teetering at the brink of ruin
Amoving, masterfulportrait of a river, the people who live on its banks, and the salmon that connect their lives to the land. It is at once travelogue, natural history, and a meditation on the sort of wildness of which we are intrinsically a part. AdamWeymouth deftly illuminates the symbiosis between humans and the natural world- a relationship so ancient, complex, and mysterious that it just might save us
Shift over Pierre Berton and Farley Mowat. You, too, Robert Service. Set another place at the table for Adam Weymouth, whowrites as powerfully and poetically about the Far North as any of the greats who went before him
Adam Weymouth writes of the YukonRiver, the salmon and the people,with language thatflows and ripples like the water he describes. There may be a smoothness to the words, but pay attention, there are deep undercurrents here.You can hear the water dripping from his paddlebetween each stroke as he travels that river. It mingles with the voices of the many people he visits along its shores
Beautiful, restrained, uncompromising. The narrative pulls you eagerly downstream roaring, chuckling and shimmering just like the mighty Yukon itself
An infatuated love letter to the river
I thoroughly enjoyed traveling the length of the Yukon River with Adam Weymouth, discovering the essential connection between the salmon and the people who rely upon them.What a joy it is to be immersed in such a remote and wondrous landscape, and what a pleasure to be in the hands of such a gifted narrator
This book isan important contribution to our understanding of threatened ecosystems and what it means to be human on the edge of ecological catastrophe. I loved thesensitive but deeply powerfulweave of pesca-poetry, knowledge and encounter that immersed me in the midst of the Yukon's forces and left me subtly transformed