{"product_id":"listening-to-the-savage-river-notes-and-half-heard-melodies-9780820348940","title":"Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarbara Hurd's \u003ci\u003eListening to the Savage\u003c\/i\u003e weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs in Hurd's other books, the previously unknown or the barely known becomeless mysterious but still retain the quality of mystery. The book presumes that nature is a mix of the chaotic and the wondrous. It addresses worry and advocacy--worry about our carelessness that can destroy the balance of that mix and a cry for us to pay more attention to humanity's relationship to natural history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eListen, be alert, it says without hectoring. Rivers, ferns, streams, birds all have a life that is delicate and worth preserving. Barbara Hurd is one of our finest environmental writers, and this book will please the choir and persuade those on the ambivalent edge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Hurd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820348940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBARBARA HURD is the author of \u003ci\u003eStirring the Mud, Entering the Stone, Walking the Wrack Line\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Singer's Temple\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Georgia Review, Orion, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAudubon\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award, five PushcartPrizes, five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40847912435827,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_95b9643e-1c8a-451f-a506-45e5e003418d.jpg?v=1686239141","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/listening-to-the-savage-river-notes-and-half-heard-melodies-9780820348940","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}