Whether the subject is the plants that grow there, the animals that live there, the rivers that run there, or the people he has known there, Paul LindholdtOCOs "In Earshot of Water" illuminates the Pacific Northwest in vivid detail. Lindholdt writes with the precision of a naturalist, the critical eye of an ecologist, the affection of an apologist, and the self-revelation and self-awareness of a personal essayist in the manner of Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, Derrick Jensen, John McPhee, Robert Michael Pyle, and Kathleen ...
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Whether the subject is the plants that grow there, the animals that live there, the rivers that run there, or the people he has known there, Paul LindholdtOCOs "In Earshot of Water" illuminates the Pacific Northwest in vivid detail. Lindholdt writes with the precision of a naturalist, the critical eye of an ecologist, the affection of an apologist, and the self-revelation and self-awareness of a personal essayist in the manner of Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, Derrick Jensen, John McPhee, Robert Michael Pyle, and Kathleen Dean Moore.aaaaaaaaaaaaa Exploring both the literal and literary sense of place, with particular emphasis on environmental issues and politics in the far Northwest, Lindholdt weds passages from the journals of Lewis and Clark, the log of Captain James Cook, the novelized memoir of Theodore Winthrop, and Bureau of Reclamation records growing from the paintings that the agency commissioned to publicize its dams in the 1960s and 1970s, to tell ecological and personal histories of the region he knows and loves.aIn LindholdtOCOs beautiful prose, AmericaOCOs environmental legaciesOCothose inherited from his blood relatives as well as those from the influences of mass cultureOCoand illuminations of athe hazards of neglecting natureOCOs warning signs blur and merge and reemerge in new forms. Themes of fathers and sons layer the book, as wellOCothe narrator as father and as sonOCointerwoven with a call to responsible social activism with appeals to reason and emotion. Like water itself, "In Earshot of Water" cascades across boundaries and blends genres, at once learned and literary. a
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