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Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julian Hoffman, Terry Tempest Williams (Selected by)Series:Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for CreatiPublish date:2014-09-15Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820347578ISBN-10:820347574UPC:9780820347578Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Personal MemoirsAward:2014 National Outdoor Book Awards Winner - Natural History AwardSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCRCADWHQA

In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it's a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds ranging high mountain pastures, a quail taking cover on an empty steppe, or a Turkmen family emigrating from Afghanistan to Istanbul. The narrative spans the common--and often contested--ground that supports human and natural communities alike, seeking the unsung stories that sustain us.

Guided by the belief of Rainer Maria Rilke that "everything beckons us to perceive it," Hoffman explores the area around the Prespa Lakes, the first transboundary park in the Balkans, shared by Greece, Albania, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. From there he travels widely to regions rarely written about, exploring the idea that home is wherever we happen to be if we accord that place our close and patient attention.

The Small Heart of Things is a book about looking and listening. It incorporates travel and natural history writing that interweaves human stories with those of wild creatures. Distinguished by Hoffman's belief that through awareness, curiosity, and openness we have the potential to forge abiding relationships with a range of places, it illuminates how these many connections can teach us to be at home in the world.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820347578ISBN-10:820347574UPC:9780820347578Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays, Personal MemoirsAward:2014 National Outdoor Book Awards Winner - Natural History AwardSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCRCADWHQA
JULIAN HOFFMAN is the author of The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World (Georgia), which won the 2012 AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. He was also the winner of the Terrain.org Nonfiction Prize and has written for EarthLines, Kyoto Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Briar Cliff Review, Flyway, Redwood Coast Review, Silk Road Review, and Southern Humanities Review. He lives in northwestern Greece.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Awards

🏆 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards Winner - Natural History Award

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