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From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis. Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in breadth, and as elegant as a Japanese teahouse. "Sentience and sunderance," Ehrlich writes. "How we know what we know, who teaches us, how easy it is to lose it all." As if to stave off impending loss, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan, and an uninhabited Alaskan island, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them.
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"It certainly should be."
"Global climate change means that landscapes we thought were forever are impermanent, while the pandemic makes clear that control over our human environment is equally illusory."
"As a species, our options are narrowing rapidly—yet for some of us they do still exist."
"Erlich ruminates on loss both personally (her husband's brain cancer) and climatologically, and has a knack for capturing the lives of those she's met on the road ..."
"A vigorous plea for responsible environmental stewardship and a treat for all fans of nature writing."
"She vividly recounts sojourns on a Channel Island off the California coast ..."
"the reach for the spiritual dimension of human relationships to animals and nature is never empty philosophizing ..."
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