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Paperback. Condition: Good. In A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen John Hay writes from the vantage point of eighty, and like no other American writer on what he calls "the real world." Hay returns to memories of a boyhood divided between Manhattan and the deep woods of Sunapee, New Hampshire, to a time when he knew "one should always be outdoors, with the unregistered and the unsigned." He writes with precision and beauty of pilot whale strandings on Cape Cod's Outer Beach-and of the attendant human confusion and greed-and of the sweep of a century in which "our modern, owned world is going deaf from listening to its own answers." Hay keeps company with Maine barn swallows and finds in the Lakota Sioux Grass Dance a way to listen to the wind. Always, through often uncannily affecting language, John Hay shows us just which ceremonies we all must attend to.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Focusing on nature as inseparable from the deepest human experience, this book argues that scientific advances cannot substitute for the life of nature.

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 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. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen John Hay writes from the vantage point of eighty, and like no other American writer on what he calls "the real world." Hay returns to memories of a boyhood divided between Manhattan and the deep woods of Sunapee, New Hampshire, to a time when he knew "one should always be outdoors, with the unregistered and the unsigned." He writes with precision and beauty of pilot whale strandings on Cape Cod's Outer Beach-and of the attendant human confusion and greed-and of the sweep of a century in which "our modern, owned world is going deaf from listening to its own answers." Hay keeps company with Maine barn swallows and finds in the Lakota Sioux Grass Dance a way to listen to the wind. Always, through often uncannily affecting language, John Hay shows us just which ceremonies we all must attend to.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Focusing on nature as inseparable from the deepest human experience, this book argues that scientific advances cannot substitute for the life of nature.

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