The inner coast : essays

Summary: "Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the best-selling author of Moby-Duck. Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects ten of his best, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, which feature his physical, historical, and emotional journeys through the American landscape. By turns meditative and comic, adventurous and metaphysical, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools, the dance between ecology and engineering, the lost art of ice canoeing, and Americans' complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau. The Inner Coast marks the return of one of our finest young writers and a stylish exploration of what Guy Davenport called "the geography of the imagination.""--

Record details

ISBN: 9781324005971
ISBN: 1324005971
ISBN: 9781324005988
Physical Description: print
xx, 229 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Snail picking -- A romance of rust -- Revival of the ice canoe -- Watermarks -- Midwest passage -- The zealot -- Mammoth fever -- Four Lights : Evan S. Connell, Marilynne Robinson, Matthew Power, Henry David Thoreau -- Falling -- And yet.