Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565126181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). With keen perception and wit, Shetterly offers us an education in nature, one that should inspire us to preserve it. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the landobserving her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She expertly shows us how they all make their way in an ever-changing habitat. . In writing about a displaced garter snake, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road, trapping a cricket with her young son, rescuing a fledgling raven, or the town's joy at the return of the alewife migrati
"A Tender Witness" according to Story Circle Book Reviews. In this spare, elegant, and compassionate little book, Susan Hand Shetterly takes us with her into the wild world at the unsettled edge of a small village in Maine. She and her husband went there in the back-to-the-land movement in the 1970s, "idealistic, dangerously unprepared, and, fran. Patricia Kramer said Living with nature. This book was a joy to read and dove tailed with the animal nature exploration kit I just gave my 6 year old grandson. Shetterly describes her experiences in the wild with all the pleasure, sadness and sense of not having to tie everything up in a neat package. Everything can't be known, . "Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town" according to David L. Eastman. This is the best nature writer I have encountered in some time. My youngest sister gave me the book, as it refreshed her in some recent travails. For me, this fine woman essayist uses words that astonish me in their clarity and perception. While I know much of the same scientific insights
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Let's hope it's not another quarter-century before her next collection arrives. All rights reserved. But she writes about her neighbors (even those she admits she never really knew) with equal grace and empathy. I live on land that has not surrendered the last of its wildness, Shetterly (The New Year's Owl: Encounters with Animals, People and the Land They Share) writes of her home in rural Maine. It keeps secrets, and those secrets prompt us to pay attention, to look for more. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Shetterly's eye for poetic de