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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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"Erlich's memories, rendered in rich, lyrical language, make for a moving ode to a changing planet."
"In lush, evocative prose, Ehrlich details some breathtakingly perilous journeys, including trekking across a span of polar desolation ..."
"Unsolaced also challenges our contemporary preoccupation with looking to the future at the expense of living in the present."
"The hand-wringing feels gratuitous ..."
"Ehrlich is drawn again and again to places of extreme weather, extreme natural beauty ..."
"while some of Ehrlich's observations of humans feel awkward, her language when describing the natural world is poetic ..."
"Ehrlich chronicles with enthralling precision the to-the-brink physicality of hard work and daring expeditions and the meditative states nature summons."
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