An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field [B0759]

1995 PB in nice condition. In this collection of essays, the acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, combining the power of her observations in the field with her personal experience-as a woman, a Mormon, and a Westerner. Through the grace of her stories we come to see how a lack of intimacy with the natural world has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. Williams shadows lions on the Serengeti and spots night herons in the Bronx. She pays homage to the rogue spirits of Edward Abbey and Georgia O'Keeffe, contemplates the unfathomable wildness of bears, and directs us to a politics of place. The result is an utterly persuasive book-one that has the power to change the way we live upon the earth.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A love letter to the desert west. I didn't realize how much I considered desert lands to be a defining characteristic of who I am until I read this and felt nostalgic for home. I read this and felt a version of myself I haven't been able to fully identify come to the surface. A wonderful insight into environmentalism and paganism and spirituality and politics and prejudice and the connection we feel to lands we call home."; "Just finished! The wisdom in this book is magnificent. If you are a Nature lover and Spiritualist this is for you. Highly recommend for people interested in Animism and the well being of the Earth."