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Synopsis
The Woods Stretched for Miles gathers essays about southern landscape and nature from nineteen writers with geographic or ancestral ties to the region. This remarkable group encompasses not only such well-known names as Wendell Berry and Rick Bass but also distinctive new voices, including Christopher Camuto, Susan Cerulean, and Eddy L. Harris.
From the savannas of south Florida through the hardwood uplands of Mississippi to the coastal rivers of the Carolinas and the high mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, the range in geography covered is equally broad. With insight and eloquence, these diverse talents take up similar themes: environmental restoration, the interplay between individual and community, the definition of wildness in an area transformed by human activity, and the meaning of our reactions to the natural world.
Readers will treasure the passionate and intelligent honorings of land and nature offered by this rich anthology. With the publication of The Woods Stretched for Miles, southern voices establish their abiding place in the ever-popular nature writing genre.
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About the Author
John Lane's writing has been published in Orion, American Whitewater, Southern Review, Terra Nova, and Fourth Genre. His books include Waist Deep in Black Water, The Woods Stretched for Miles, and Chattooga (all published by Georgia), several volumes of poetry, and Weed Time,a gathering of his essays. Lane is an associate professor of English at Wofford College.
From Publishers Weekly
Mingling environmental concerns, naturalist observation and appreciation of the South's distinctive landscape and culture, this adventurous anthology is full of indelible forays deep into nature, the American South and ecology. Exploring Mississippi's Black Creek Wilderness Area, which awaits federal approval as an officially protected zone, Rick Bass audaciously, perhaps quixotically, advances the idea of creating "buffered wilderness" regions that would remain as close as possible to what the country's first settlers encountered. Combing North Carolina's Smoky Mountains, Christopher Camuto assesses the cultural loss flowing from the near total destruction of the old-growth forest. Naturalist Susan Cerulean's agile report describes biologists' fieldwork radio-tagging and monitoring the endangered, migratory swallow-tailed kite, which nests in Florida and winters in South America. Nature gets confrontational in several of these essays. Archie Carr weighs the mixed blessings of coexisting with a 300-pound Florida alligator in his front-yard pond; Jan DeBlieu faces down Hurricane Gloria on Cape Hatteras. Counterpoised to first-person narratives of grand river trips wending through family and regional history, there is Mary Q. Steele's quietly exquisite celebration of her daily interaction with nature in a Tennessee suburb. Also included are E.O. Wilson's luminous recollection of a formative Alabama boyhood summer, Wendell Berry's far from idyllic account of homesteading on a tiny Kentucky farm, and Cherokee/Appalachian storyteller Marilou Awiakta's probe of Native Americans' harmonization with the web of life. These vibrant essays, many reprinted from books, a few original, scour nature, embodied in Southern vistas, for keys to Earth's renewal and untapped potential. Co-editor Lane is an essayist, poet and kayaker; Thurmond is a sociologist and birdwatcher.
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- PublisherUniv of Georgia Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0820320870
- ISBN 13 9780820320878
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages238
- EditorThurmond Gerald, Lane John
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