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Wild Spectacle - Seeking Wonders in a World beyond Humans

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¿Janisse Ray at her best¿. If there¿s a more open, honest, and appealing writer today, I¿ve not met her.¿ ¿ Bill McKibben, author Wandering Home: A Long Walk across Americäs Most Hopeful Landscape

From the bestselling author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, an exploration of the astounding and vanishing wild world.


List of contents

Preface
Meridian
Exaltation of Elk
Montana
Opening the Big W
One Meal
In the Elkhorn
Migration
The Duende of Cabo Blanco
Bird-men of Belize
Snapshots of a Dark Angel
Las Monarcas
The Dinner Party
Magnitude
Manatee
Night Life
A Terrible and Beautiful Scar
Forms of Rarity
Spiderwomen
I Have Seen the Warrior

About the author

Janisse Ray is a naturalist and activist, and the author of seven books of nonfiction and poetry, including The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River, and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, which won the American Book Award. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and journals, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and numerous other honors. Ray lives on an organic farm near Savannah, Georgia.

Summary

“Janisse Ray at her best…. If there’s a more open, honest, and appealing writer today, I’ve not met her.” — Bill McKibben, author Wandering Home: A Long Walk across America’s Most Hopeful LandscapeFrom the bestselling author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, an exploration of the astounding and vanishing wild world.

Foreword

  • Author very social media savvy; janisseray.com, facebook.com/janisse.ray, Insta & Twitter @tracklesswild
  • Regional and national media
  • Advertising and presenting with Southern Indie Booksellers Alliance
  • professional assocations Georgia Writers Hall of Fame and Georgia Writers Museum (Eatonton, Ga)
  • Author broadly published in places like Oprah Magazine, Sierra, Washington Post, Audubon, National Geographic Traveler, Ecotone, Terrain, Orion, Southern Foodways Alliance, Bitter Southerner, Heartsone, etc.

  • Product details

    Authors Janisse Ray
    Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
     
    Languages English
    Product format Paperback / Softback
    Released 22.07.2022
     
    EAN 9781595349873
    ISBN 978-1-59534-987-3
    No. of pages 208
    Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
    Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works

    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists

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