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  <default_description>Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Nelson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a reread of a book I read about 10 years ago.  It has so many bookmarks to important passages, I have to laugh.  I think I may not have remembered how important it was to me because he does a lot of describing his hunting, which I have to admit scares me, I could never kill another living a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44400996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Often poetic and insightful, but far too lengthy and rambling.  An account of the author's explorations of an island near his home somewhere in the coastal Northwest or Alaska.  It took me a long time to get through. <br/><br/>Within his own jaunts, he includes stories and bits of wisdom of the Koyu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32366585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much one of my all-time favorites, this book made me appreciate and love the PNW.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL read. I am currently reading this book and am taking it slow to savor every passage. The book reads like prose and has such amazing  lines that I am constantly marking passages! <br/><br/>A wonderful book by a talented, sensitive soul. I would recommend this book to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7660593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is about a nameless island somewhere in the pacific northwest. it is an anti-travel book, insisting that finding the places you connect with is as important as finding the people you connect with. read in a field on dreary days]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[much better than i was expecting.  wonderful, respectful nature writing.]]></body>
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