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Sto caricando le informazioni... In the Company of Lightdi John Hay
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"One of the most daring of contemporary writers in the genre." -Norton Anthology of Nature Writing " Hay's] books about Cape Cod belong in the company of Thoreau, Donald Culross Peattie, Henry Beston, and Rachel Carson." -Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe "Hay's new book, published in his 83rd year, is autumnal in spirit and in substance. . . . The essence of this enterprise is a kind of prayer, eloquent and deeply felt." -Richard Todd, Civilization " Hay] is, to my mind, without question this country's greatest living nature writer. . . . He writes out of such a profoundly poetic impulse that he cannot help but produce prose of a high literary order." -Robert Finch, The Cape Codder "Hay loses himself in details, describing the minute play of light through grasses, the reflection of a water bug on the rocks of a stream bottom, the fungi on fallen trees that begin to glow with an eerie luminescence. . . . He] is not only the observer of what most of us don't see, but of what we may never get a chance to see." -David Cline, Hartford Advocate "In the Company of Light shares with considerable humility the well-honed insights of a man rich in the wisdom of age and observation of nature." -Nancy Grape, Maine Sunday Telegram John Hay is author of The Great Beach (winner of the John Burroughs Prize), The Run, and A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen, among many other books. He lives in Brewster, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and in Bremen, Maine. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I loved this book. In it, Hay writes about ecology, land use, biological wonders, and the magic of the changing seasons, chiefly in and around his home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. But he also doses his prose with just the right amount of frustration and outrage at modern society and its general disregard for the value of nature. Hay spaces these observations out just enough to keep himself from being labeled a curmudgeonly old man. Instead, he comes across as an astute and keen observer of the natural world. The truth is that there is no way to honestly report on the state of nature today without including at least a few comments on what humanity has done to damage it. I will indeed be checking out more books by Mr. Hay! ( )