Walking the High Ridge: Life as a Field Trip (Credo)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1571312439 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In his books on butterflies and the natural history of the Rockies and Pacific Northwest, Robert Michael Pyle has combined rigorous science with graceful expression--a blessing for his readers, and a model for other interpreters of nature. Students of nature writing will appreciate, too, his views on the craft. One, gently stated, is a devotion to appropriate technology (meaning pencils, paper, and binoculars). Another is a concern for natural literacy and for finding one's place in the world. "I tell students," he writes in his amiable memoir, "t
good read PASH I just love Bob Pyle's poetic writing. It helps me reconnect the things in nature that are important to me.
In his latest book he describes in compelling detail his efforts to live and work in that special natural space Nabokov described as "a high ridge where the mountainside of scientific knowledge joins the opposite slope of artistic imagination.". For Robert Michael Pyle, "walking the high ridge" is a way of life both figuratively and literally