The Earth at Our Doorstep: Contemporary Writers Celebrate the Landscapes of Home

Book Overview

Like the best of love stories, these essays are quietly instructive.... They help us watch the slow things, to celebrate the perennials that return and to mourn the migrating birds that do not. They... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871563819
• ISBN13: 9780871563811
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

a book to keep close at hand and give to friends

"The Earth at Your Doorstep" is a celebration of places...urban and rural, wild and tamed. Writers who have shown their ability to 'feel' the world around them share their favorite surroundings with us in this book. One sees island living very differently as a result of David Gutterson's discussion, and New Orleans differently when Andrei Cordescu shares his city with us. For those of us who love both the city and the wilderness, this book is a delight. And anyone who wishes to glimpse the environs within which many writers work will find that as well. This is one of those books that you can pick up and read one 'landscape' an evening at bedtime or get totally wrapped up in it and read at one seating.