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I had noticed, more than noticed, the cobwebs, and the shoaling light, and the way the doctor listened, and the flecked tweed of her skirt, and the speckled bird and the sickle-cell man’s slim feet. Isn’t that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?</div><div> </div><div>During her husband’s hospital stay for a life-threatening illness, Kathleen Jamie didn’t pray, but she did find herself paying very close attention to the world around her. In Findings, she shares her direct, uncluttered observations of the natural and unnatural world—seen from her kitchen window, on the streets of Edinburgh, in hospital corridors, in the Outer Hebrides.</div><div>
What she finds: an awe-inspiring salmon run that turns out to have been reengineered so that no salmon can possibly reach the top of the falls. A disembodied doll head, caught with the carcass of a whale on a remote island, where crofters once combed for driftwood. She wonders “if durability is still a virtue, when we have invented plastic.”</div><div>
Findings received resounding praise on publication in the United Kingdom. John Berger named it his favorite book of 2005, “because it finds without disturbing the found. And this takes courage and delicacy” (The Guardian).</div></div>]]> 2005 4 0 false Sun Apr 26 17:45:06 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 17:45:06 -0700 2009 52497426 810479 1784356 1555974457 9781555974459 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188309060m/1784356.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188309060s/1784356.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1784356.Findings_Essays_on_the_Natural_and_Unnatural_World 4.06 18 “A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.” —The Daily Telegraph</div><div>
I had noticed, more than noticed, the cobwebs, and the shoaling light, and the way the doctor listened, and the flecked tweed of her skirt, and the speckled bird and the sickle-cell man’s slim feet. Isn’t that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?</div><div> </div><div>During her husband’s hospital stay for a life-threatening illness, Kathleen Jamie didn’t pray, but she did find herself paying very close attention to the world around her. In Findings, she shares her direct, uncluttered observations of the natural and unnatural world—seen from her kitchen window, on the streets of Edinburgh, in hospital corridors, in the Outer Hebrides.</div><div>
What she finds: an awe-inspiring salmon run that turns out to have been reengineered so that no salmon can possibly reach the top of the falls. A disembodied doll head, caught with the carcass of a whale on a remote island, where crofters once combed for driftwood. She wonders “if durability is still a virtue, when we have invented plastic.”</div><div>
Findings received resounding praise on publication in the United Kingdom. John Berger named it his favorite book of 2005, “because it finds without disturbing the found. And this takes courage and delicacy” (The Guardian).</div></div>]]> 2005 0 0 false Mon Apr 13 09:07:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:07:19 -0700 2009 52335072 2212000 895779 0954221745 9780954221744 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265m/895779.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265s/895779.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895779.Findings 4.06 18 2005 5 0 false Sat Apr 11 16:44:52 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 16:44:52 -0700 2009 50733052 2167215 895779 0954221745 9780954221744 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265m/895779.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265s/895779.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895779.Findings 4.06 18 2005 4 0 false Sat Mar 28 13:33:55 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:34:02 -0700 2009 48194318 1465732 895779 0954221745 9780954221744 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265m/895779.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265s/895779.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895779.Findings 4.06 18 2005 0 0 false Wed Mar 04 04:59:10 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 04:59:15 -0800 2009 45631415 2001557 895779 0954221745 9780954221744 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265m/895779.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179267265s/895779.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895779.Findings 4.06 18 2005 3 0 false Sat Feb 07 01:55:25 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 01:55:25 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=895779