Sightlines: a conversation with the natural world
When the day ended with time for questions, I had some turning in my head ... About 'nature, ' mostly, which we were exhorted to reconnect with. What was it, exactly, and where did it reside? With her poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native Scottish "byways and hills" and sails north to enc…
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- Full title :Sightlines : a conversation with the natural world / Kathleen Jamie.
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When the day ended with time for questions, I had some turning in my head ... About 'nature, ' mostly, which we were exhorted to reconnect with. What was it, exactly, and where did it reside? With her poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native Scottish "byways and hills" and sails north to encounter whalebones and icebergs. Interweaving personal history with her scrutiny of landscape, Jamie dissects whatever her gaze falls upon--from vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to orcas rounding a headland, to the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. Written with precision, subtlety, and wry humor, Sightlines urges us to "Keep looking. Keep looking, even when there's nothing much to see."
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The Experiment
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781615191758, 1615191755
- oclc:ocn853455991
- LC Classification:PR6060.A477
- Dewey Decimal:914.11/0486
Table of Contents
Aurora -- Pathologies -- The woman in the field -- The gannetry -- Light -- The Hvalsalen -- Moon -- Three ways of looking at St Kilda -- La Cueva -- Magpie moth -- On Rona -- The storm petrel -- Voyager, chief -- Wind.
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