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Informationen zum Autor Sylvia Linsteadt followed coyote tracks all the way back to her native Bay Area after attending Brown University, where she studied literary arts. Her books include Tatterdemalion (Unbound, forthcoming) and Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday, 2014). Her work—both fiction and nonfiction—explores the realms of deep ecology, history, and myth. She runs two stories-by-mail projects, The Grey Fox Epistles and The Leveret Letters , and in 2014 her manuscript > received the James D. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has been published in New California Writing 2013, The Dark Mountain Project , and News from Native California . Klappentext Working with an astoundingly talented young writer, Sylvia Linsteadt, and with contributions from the Heyday staff, we return to the East Bay Regional Parks to marvel once again at the animals, plants, sounds, geological formations, and histories so close to home and yet so exotic. Drawing from scientific fact, human history, photography, and literature, thirty exquisite essays on topics as diverse as mountain lions, flower seeds, vernal pools, Indian languages, extinct volcanoes, and beetles reveal "the profound secret that our schools, jobs, government, and all our institutions conspire to keep hidden from us": namely, that the world around us, when seen through fresh eyes, is in its entirety and in all its parts nothing less than a wonderment. Zusammenfassung Working with an astoundingly talented young writer! Sylvia Linsteadt! and with contributions from the Heyday staff! we return to the East Bay Regional Parks to marvel once again at the animals! plants! sounds! geological formations! and histories so close to home and yet so exotic. Drawing from scientific fact! human history! photography! and literature! thirty exquisite essays on topics as diverse as mountain lions! flower seeds! vernal pools! Indian languages! extinct volcanoes! and beetles reveal “the profound secret that our schools! jobs! government! and all our institutions conspire to keep hidden from us”: namely! that the world around us! when seen through fresh eyes! is in its entirety and in all its parts nothing less than a wonderment. ...
