Fr. 24.90

Mossback - Ecology, Emancipation, and Foraging for Hope in Painful Places

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 24.02.2023

Description

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Debut essay collection exploring landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and social justice


List of contents

  • CONTENTS 
  • 1
    Like a Mountain 
  • 14
    The Watershed and the Grid 
  • 26
    After Apocalypse 
  • 43
    An Ancestor, a Cabin, and a Legacy 
  • 66
    Finding Our Way Home 
  • 78
    A Catechism of Kinship 
  • 97
    Hungering Bodies 
  • 115
    Into the Brine 
  • 128
    The Tree, the Ax, and the Struggle for Life 
  • 150
    Wisdom Dwells in Dark Places 
  • 168
    Refuge 
  • 187
    Notes 
  • 193
    Bibliography 
  • 199
    Acknowledgments 

About the author










J. Drew Lanham is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and poet. He is the author of Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts and The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, and his work has appeared in Audubon, Orion, Vanity Fair, Forest Ecology and Management, and the Oxford American. The recipient of a 2022 MacArthur fellowship, he is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University in South Carolina.

Summary

Debut essay collection exploring landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and social justice

Product details

Authors David Michael Pritchett
Assisted by J. Drew Lanham (Foreword)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 24.02.2023, delayed
 
EAN 9781595349910
ISBN 978-1-59534-991-0
No. of pages 224
Subjects Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology

NATURE / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, SCIENCE / Natural History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies

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