Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility

By Michael Katakis

Book Overview

These diverse and sometimes controversial essays redefine the concept of 'stewardship' in its modern context by exploring the fine line between interacting and interfering with nature. Touching on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562790560
• ISBN13: 9781562790561
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Mercury House
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A balanced mix of personal reflection

Sacred Trusts: Essays On Stewardship And Responsibility is an impressive anthology showcasing thirty new essays by environmental issues and nature writers ranging from Wendell Berry, Mary Catherine Bateson, and Frederick Turner, to Gary Paul Nabhan, Joan Wulff, and Bill McKibben. The contributors discuss their diverse experiences and attitudes as caretakers of the natural world and include a range of perspectives not commonly found in most collections of environmental commentary. The compelling, entertaining, informative, and occasionally challenging essays are enhanced for the reader with superb illustrations drawn by Russell Chatham. A balanced mix of personal reflection, finely crafted nature writing, and passionate appeals for conservation, Sacred Trusts is a welcome, timely, and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, academic, and community library environmental studies collections and reading lists.