Fr. 24.90

Writer in a Life Vest - Essays from the Salish Sea

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 31.08.2022

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In 2018-19, Iris Graville served as Washington State Ferries' (WSF) first Writer-in-Residence. Sailing in the Salish Sea's San Juan Archipelago, she wrote about how climate change threatens its interwoven lattice of beauty, wildness, fragility, and relationship. Writer in a Life Vest leads readers to ask questions and find hope.


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Iris Graville writes nonfiction, including personal essays, memoir, profiles, and blog posts. Her work has been published in national and regional journals. Iris is also the publisher of the online SharkReef Literary Magazine. Her third book, the memoir Hiking Naked, was published in 2017 and received a Nautilus Book Award. In 2018, Iris was named the first "Writer-in-Residence" for the Washington State Ferries system, drafting essays as the vessel coursed among the San Juan Islands. An environmental and anti-racism activist and a retired nurse, Iris lives with her husband on traditional Coast Salish lands, now called Lopez Island, Washington. irisgraville.com


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In 2018-19, Iris Graville served as Washington State Ferries’ (WSF) first Writer-in-Residence. Sailing in the Salish Sea’s San Juan Archipelago, she wrote about how climate change threatens its interwoven lattice of beauty, wildness, fragility, and relationship. Writer in a Life Vest leads readers to ask questions and find hope.

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Graville writes through prose and poetry specifically of the Southern Resident orcas of the Salish Sea of Washington and British Columbia, but more generally of the climate crisis and how our actions today will affect all beings well into the future. Writer in a Life Vest is filled with wonder, tolerance, and sometimes brutal honesty, and peopled with the likes of Sylvia Earl, Greta Thunberg, and Rachel Carson. It stands as an ode on a ferry; a love song for the Salish Sea and all its inhabitants; and a carefully researched, heartfelt, deftly-written, and convincing plea to change what we can while we can.  
—Gene Helfman, author of Beyond the Human Realm

Product details

Authors Iris Graville
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 31.08.2022, delayed
 
EAN 9781953340481
ISBN 978-1-953340-48-1
No. of pages 200
Illustrations Map of Salish Sea
Subjects Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)

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