Sightlines : a conversation with the natural world
Jamie, Kathleen, 1962-2013
Book
"When the day ended with time for questions, I had some turning in my head . . . About 'nature, ' mostly, which we were exhorted to reconnect with. What was it, exactly, and where did it reside?" With her poet s eye and naturalist s affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native Scottish byways and hills and sails north to encounter whalebones and icebergs. Interweaving personal history with her scrutiny of landscape, Jamie dissects whatever her gaze falls upon from vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to orcas rounding a headland, to the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. Written with precision, subtlety, and wry humor, Sightlines urges us to Keep looking. Keep looking, even when there s nothing much to see.
Main title:
Sightlines : a conversation with the natural world / Kathleen Jamie.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : The Experiment, 2013.
Collation:
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Aurora -- Pathologies -- The Woman in the Field -- The Gannetry -- Light -- The Hvalsalen -- Moon -- Three Ways of Looking at St Kilda -- La Cueva -- Magpie Moth -- On Rona -- The Storm Petrel -- Voyager, Chief -- Wind.
ISBN:
9781615190836 (pbk)
Dewey class:
914.110486914.1104
LC class:
PR6060.A477
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
153290
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Travel | TRAVEL 914.1104 JAMI | Available |