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The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin
At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place — Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin — author Mark Tredinnick considers how writers transmute the power of nature into words. Each author is profiled in a separate chapter written in r...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
September 29th 2005
by Trinity University Press
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At once a primer on writing and reading environmental / nature / landscape literature (call it what you will), The Land’s Wild Music is also a detailed study on, and set of conversations with, four prominent writers, all of whom approach writing about the land from different angles and with different intentions.
This is a text that bites off almost more than it can chew, but it’s this very ambition and subject range that makes the book a meaningful and worthwhile read, as Treddinick manages to mo...more
This is a text that bites off almost more than it can chew, but it’s this very ambition and subject range that makes the book a meaningful and worthwhile read, as Treddinick manages to mo...more
I bought this book at the height of my addiction to Matthiessen. I'd read everything he'd written and wanted more. Mark Treddinnick's The Land's Wild Music was advertised as a collection of nature writers, including Matthiessen, so I assumed I'd get a boatload of essays with a similar passion, insight, an innate ability to see into the soul of nature.
I now know that was an unreasonable goal, but, unfortunately, my opinion of Treddinnick's encounters (his word) has forever been shaded by my sky h...more
I now know that was an unreasonable goal, but, unfortunately, my opinion of Treddinnick's encounters (his word) has forever been shaded by my sky h...more
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