Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World
by Morrow, Susan Brind
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618098569
- ISBN 13
- 9780618098569
- Seller
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Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world. Anchored in the emblematic experiences of a trapper and a beekeeper, Wolves and Honey explores the implications of their very different relationships to the natural world, while illuminating Morrow’s own poignant experience of the lives and tragic deaths of these men who deeply influenced her. Ultimately for Morrow these two the tracker and trapper of wolves, the keeper of bees are a touchstone for a memoir of the land itself, the rich soil of the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York. From the ancient myth of the Tree of Life to the mysterious reappearance of wolves in the New York wilderness, from the inner life of the word nectar,” whose Greek root (that which overcomes death”) reveals our most fundamental experience of wonder, to the surprising links between the physics of light and the chemistry of sweetness, Morrow’s richly evocative writing traces startling historical, scientific, and metaphorical resonances. Wolves and Honey, attuned to the connections among various realms of culture and nature, time and language, jolts us into thinking anew about our sometimes neglected but always profound relationship to the natural world.
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- Bookseller
- Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002946
- Title
- Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World
- Author
- Morrow, Susan Brind
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618098569
- ISBN 13
- 9780618098569
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"- 9&fr
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cultural Studies;
- X weight
- 0 lbs
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