Moving With The Elements - Softcover

Semken, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888160357 ISBN 13: 9781888160352

Publisher: The Ice Cube Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book explores the world through the four natural elements of fire, water, earth and air. This includes the patterns of weather, the length of shadows, the quest to find old growth forests as well as legends on eccentric characters. A collection of short essays and short stories, Moving With The Elements brings the following old saying back to life, "What's more true than the truth? Well, the story of course."

About this title

About the Author

Author of ,River Tips and Tree Trunks, Steve Semken writes about the natural world from his home in the rich and tricky hills of eastern Iowa.

From the Back Cover

Curious about the weather, the earth, the sun and the air? Discover clues about the structure of stones, the patterns of clouds, the pride of small towns and whirlpools in the water. Moving With The Elements is a wonderful contribution to nature writing, blending and sweeping together of fact and fiction, to reveal the world through story.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Cirrus clouds are wrapped lightly around my neck. I am standing on a peak of the Great Plains, looking out across long drawn out buttes toward the north. There is a delicate light now as the sun rises. The clouds look like ocean waves crashing into the soul of a rainbow. Peering deep in the middle of these brilliant morning colors I find myself a prospector, searching the landscape for elements, panning the air for gold ... "

Edition details

• Publisher: The Ice Cube Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888160357
• ISBN 13: 9781888160352
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192