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Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the best-selling author of Moby-Duck. Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects ten of his best, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, which feature his physical, historical, and emotional journeys through the American landscape. By turns meditative and comic, adventurous and metaphysical, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools, the dance between ecology and engineering, the lost art of ice canoeing, and Americans' complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau. The Inner Coast marks the return of one of our finest young writers.
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"A Virgil in strange and unwonted places, Hohn now emerges as not only trustworthy, but also just the sort of person you'd want spinning a yarn over a fire in some backwoods fishing camp, and likable, indeed, especially in his larger-hearted moments ..."
"His nimble technique takes him from name checks of Jesmyn Ward and Joseph Brodsky, the Bible and the Qur'an, DaVinci and Thoreau in a heady few paragraphs."
"Settle in and savor a keen mind with a laudable moral compass."
"The strongest piece is 'Falling,' about his mother, who suffered periods of mental instability during his youth ..."
"He has a charming attraction to quixotic characters ..."
"Hohn's best pieces here are deep dives into narrative nonfiction ..."
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