When the Wild Comes Leaping Up Personal Encounters with Nature

by Suzuki, David

• ISBN13: 9781550549959
• ISBN10: 1550549952
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781926706153
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-03
• Publisher: Greystone Books
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Summary

Aplunge Down a Winter Mountainside above a darkening valley. An innocent walk in the woods. An afternoon amble over grassy hills. A kayak trip through a hurricane. This powerful collection of original essays by outstanding writers from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia is based on personal experiences with nature. By turns lyrical, humorous, spiritual, irreverent, and terrifying, each essay is beautifully written and deeply felt, and all are testimonies to the transformative powers of the natural world. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Way Back Home	p. 5
A Desperate Clarity	p. 23
Land	p. 31
The Requiem Shark	p. 45
Sacred Grove	p. 65
The Same River Twice: Stenothermal Waters and the Remorseless Flow of Time	p. 85
Living Inside the Landscape	p. 97
A Texas Childbood	p. 117
Cryogenics: A Symposium	p. 143
Taking a Shower with William Hazlitt	p. 149
The Day the Waylakas Dance	p. 171
The Deer in Springtime	p. 193
Space and Time Enough	p. 203
Catching an Epiphany	p. 215
Out of a Wild Sea	p. 225
Acknowledgments	p. 235
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