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

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