The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Berry, Wendell

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ISBN 10: 1593760922 ISBN 13: 9781593760922

Casa editrice: Counterpoint, 2006

Riassunto

Only someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a wild place so lovingly. Wendell Berry just as easily steps into Kentucky's Red River Gorge and makes the observations of a poet as he does step away to view his subject with the keen, unflinching eye of an essayist. The inimitable voice of Wendell Berry—at once frank and lovely—is our guide as we explore this unique wilderness.

Located in eastern Kentucky and home to 26,000 acres of untamed river, rock formations, historical sites, unusual vegetation and wildlife, the Gorge very nearly fell victim to a man–made lake thirty years ago. "No place is to be learned like a textbook," Berry tells us, and so through revealing the Gorge's corners and crevices, its ridges and rapids, his words not only implore us to know more but to venture there ourselves. Infused with his very personal perspective and enhanced by the startling photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The Unforeseen Wilderness draws the reader in to celebrate an extraordinary natural beauty and to better understand what threatens it.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Counterpoint
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1593760922
• ISBN 13: 9781593760922
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile