Ask the Author: Ret Talbot
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Ret Talbot
Keep in mind that omission can be as powerful a tool as invention.
Ret Talbot
I'm working on a project that builds on some of the research I did for
Chasing Shadows
. I plan to do a deep dive into four apex predators, learning what I can about these animals from the perspectives of both traditional western science and indigenous knowledge. My overall guiding question is one that was posed by George Nicholas in a piece for Smithsonian Magazine several years ago: "Are Indigenous and Western systems of knowledge categorically antithetical? Or do they offer multiple points of entry into knowledge of the world, past and present?"
How does all of this inform my summer reading list? I plan to return to the wolf literature on my bookshelf (The Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass, several of Rick McIntyre's books, Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez, and others). New to me will be Dr. Ian Sterling's book Polar Bears: The Natural History of a Threatened Species, Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin and a whole bunch of scientific papers. I imagine I will also re-read Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
How does all of this inform my summer reading list? I plan to return to the wolf literature on my bookshelf (The Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass, several of Rick McIntyre's books, Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez, and others). New to me will be Dr. Ian Sterling's book Polar Bears: The Natural History of a Threatened Species, Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin and a whole bunch of scientific papers. I imagine I will also re-read Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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