Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water - Softcover

France, Robert Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971746818 ISBN 13: 9780971746817

Publisher: Green Frigate Books, 2003

Synopsis

This book provides an overview of how to establish water-human relationships by anchoring readers to a deeper understanding of the important cultural and psychological roles played by water in all our lives in terms of history, architecture, nature writing, art, environmental science and engineering, etc. By learning about how to deeply experience water through adventure, joy, contact and contemplation, readers gain wisdom about how to preserve untainted water in their own lives.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This is a book about water; not so much about what it is, though there is some of that present, but rather, what it does. Specifically, what water does to those individuals who allow themselves to enter into a close relationship with it. Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water provides an overview of how to establish water-human connections by anchoring readers to a deeper understanding of the important roles played by water in all our lives. The idea, always swirling just beneath the surface throughout the book, is that the more we learn about and experience water, the more we are moved to give ourselves over to it - to deeply and profoundly immerse ourselves in its physcial essence and spiritual nature, and in so doing, reciprocate by preserving its presence in our enriched lives, untainted.

This seminal book is one of the most informative works to ever address how water permeates all of human existence, and is worthy of placement on the shelf beside such other notable volumes as Gaston Bachelard's Water and Dreams, Theodor Schwenk's Water, the Element of Life, Ivan Illich's H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness and Charles Sprawson's Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero.

From the Inside Flap:

"A contemporary revelation of Thoreau's embodied wisdom" - from the Foreword by Laura Sewall, author of Sight and Sensibility: The Ecopsychology of Perception

"Drowns out that which is not important" - from the Foreword by Herbert Dreiseitl, author of Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water

"A sweeping frame of reference...a wonderful book!" - Lewis McAdams, author of The River, Books 1 & 2

"Tells me more about my aquatic obsession than any other book I've ever read." - Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places

"A deep well for thirsty minds" - Sandra Postel, author of Last Oasis

"Offers us - as no other book has - instruction in how to engage our planet's water." - John Middendorf, author of Big Walls

"A wonderful and inspirational book...everyone should read it." - Carolyn Adams, Natural Resources Conservation Service

"Offers an exuberant aquaphillia for those who are or might become lovers of water." - James Wecoat, author of Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy

"Provides us with a deep and thoughful mind-body experience of the elemental strands that bind us to water." - Mark Chandler, Earth Watch

"Redolent of Thoreau...evokes all things ever said or thought or written about water as our most precious resoruce." - Verne Huser, author of River Reflections: A Collection of River Writings

About this edition

• Publisher: Green Frigate Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0971746818
• ISBN 13: 9780971746817
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152