An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Williams, Terry Tempest | Paperback | Nature

About this book The acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves combining the power of her observations in the field with her personal experience as a woman a Mormon and a Westerner Through the grace of her stories we come to see how a lack of intimacy with the natural world has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other Williams shadows lions on the Serengeti and spots night herons in the Bronx She pays homage to the rogue spirits of Edward Abbey and Georgia O Keeffe contemplates the unfathomable wildness of bears and directs us to a politics of place The result is an utterly persuasive book one that has the power to change the way we live upon the earth Williams weaves her observations in the naturalist field and her personal experience as a woman a Westerner and a Mormon into a resonant manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves making clear as well that through our disregard of this world we have lost an essential connection to our deepest selves Key highlights - An Unspoken Hunger By Williams Terry Tempest Desser Robin EDT Related topics environmental ethics, environmental science, environmental, environmental books, nature lover gifts, gifts for nature lovers, nature books, natural history.