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Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis

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by Gessner, David

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  • Title Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis
  • Author Gessner, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 377
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Torrey House Press
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013727550
  • ISBN 9781948814485 / 194881448X
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Thoreau, Henry David, Natural history - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020951932
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.720

From the publisher

"A fast-paced but powerful, moving treasure trove of life lessons Gessner divined by spending a year making the best he could of a global tragedy."

--WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS


When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons--of learning our own backyard, re-wilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience--hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2021, Page 0

About the author

DAVID GESSNER is the author of eleven books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including Leave it As it Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness and the New York Times-bestselling All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West and the prize-winning The Tarball Chronicles. In 2003 Gessner taught environmental writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, and he now serves as chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Ecotone. His prizes include a Pushcart Prize, the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay, the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment's award for Best Book of Creative Writing, and the Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment. In 2017 he hosted the National Geographic Explorer show, "The Call of the Wild." Gessner lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, the novelist Nina de Gramont, and their daughter, Hadley.

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