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49/100Critics
80/100Scholars
Author:
Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
January 5, 2021
From the author of The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a 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.
What The Reviewers Say
[A] memoir in which a lack of chronology — more a collection of beautifully rendered memory fragments — disrupts any notion that 'background' experiences provide a progression in Ehrlich's life.
The book follows some of that excitement, from exploring never-before-tread Arctic fjords, to observing regenerative agriculture projects in the bush of Mugabe’s troubled Zimbabwe. Ehrlich is drawn again and again to places of extreme weather, extreme natural beauty.
... a lovingly observed account of the lives of people, animals and the landscapes that sustain them, spun together as deftly as a spider’s web, filled with purpose and urgency.
[Ehrlich's] courage is impressive, her experiences no less than extraordinary.
