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Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness Paperback - 2009
by Herriot, Trevor
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- Title Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness
- Author Herriot, Trevor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-05-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1555916163_new
- ISBN 9781555916169 / 1555916163
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.26 x 1.07 in (22.96 x 15.90 x 2.72 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Nature - Religious aspects - Christianity, Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.) -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008048706
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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The award-winning author of "River in a Dry Land explores the Nature that we - and our religions - sprang from
The Genesis story of Jacob, the patriarch of the Judeo-Christian tradition, wrestling with a spirit has been interpreted in a multitude of ways, but never more persuasively than by Trevor Herriot in "Jacob's Wound. He sees it as a struggle between Jacob and his wilder twin brother, Esau, whose birthright Jacob has swindled. The central idea of Herriot's brilliantly written, observant, and groundbreaking book is the wound that Jacob, the farmer, the civilized man, suffered in vanquishing Esau, the hunter, the primitive man. And the central question posed is whether we, as Jacob did with Esau, can eventually reconcile with the wildness we conquered and have been estranged from for so long.
As if ambling through the author's beloved Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan, "Jacob's Wound takes readers on an untrodden path through history, memoir, science, and theology. Along the way, Herriot tells us stories of the past and present that illuminate what we once were and what we have become. It's a measured journey motivated by curiosity rather than by destination, and at every turn there is insight and beautiful writing.
The Genesis story of Jacob, the patriarch of the Judeo-Christian tradition, wrestling with a spirit has been interpreted in a multitude of ways, but never more persuasively than by Trevor Herriot in "Jacob's Wound. He sees it as a struggle between Jacob and his wilder twin brother, Esau, whose birthright Jacob has swindled. The central idea of Herriot's brilliantly written, observant, and groundbreaking book is the wound that Jacob, the farmer, the civilized man, suffered in vanquishing Esau, the hunter, the primitive man. And the central question posed is whether we, as Jacob did with Esau, can eventually reconcile with the wildness we conquered and have been estranged from for so long.
As if ambling through the author's beloved Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan, "Jacob's Wound takes readers on an untrodden path through history, memoir, science, and theology. Along the way, Herriot tells us stories of the past and present that illuminate what we once were and what we have become. It's a measured journey motivated by curiosity rather than by destination, and at every turn there is insight and beautiful writing.
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- Publishers Weekly, 06/08/2009, Page 40