{"product_id":"an-inside-passage-9780803232143","title":"An Inside Passage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChronicles the author's travels in the rugged mountain forests of Japan's Shiretoko National Park, on a vision quest in Death Valley, and to the sacred waters of the Ganges. This book also features the landscape of his marriage, both its initial sweetness and its eventual failure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The author moves from place to place, examining the natural world around him with scrupulous care and a keen, sympathetic eye, and examining even more intensely the seasonal transformations in his own heart and mind. By the end, I felt I had traveled along with him, sharing his sorrows and his epiphanies, his vigor and courage and ceaseless quest for experience and understanding. This is a memoir of extraordinary revelation, which transforms the reader as well as the author.”—Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of \u003ci\u003eRuined by Reading: A Life in Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kurt Caswell has mastered the noble tradition of the essay as walk-around, and he reads the contours of the land, his mind, and the urgency of companions who sometimes choose to accompany him on his solo journey with delicacy, generosity and a sharp attentiveness to the possibility of new life, in all its harmonious contradictions. This is lovely writing and musing.”—Phillip Lopate, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Personal Essay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTotally, Tenderly, Tragically\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In these luminous essays on wanderlust, Caswell . . . embraces travel writer Bruce Chatwin's contention that walking is a poetic act that can cure the world of its ills. . . . His travels culminate in a Death Valley vision that replaces his pervasive sense of dislocation with the answer to a question that has nagged him for years: what is home? \"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred Review)\u003cbr\u003e\"[Kurt Caswell's] writing brings every sense to bear, and days later you will still have an exotic smell lingering in your nostrils.\"—Craig Childs, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Inside Passage\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the best of ecopsychology in contemporary American nature writing. It explores the complex interrelationship between the trajectory of our lives and the places in which we live them.\"—Gioia Woods, \u003ci\u003eISLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCalifornia RentalFive Country WalksFawnThe Way to Coss CreekLetter to a Young Girl at Summer's EndA Horse Builds a Woman in a Storm (a Dream)A Matter for HeronThe RescueBanaue TercetInstructions at the HeadwatersThe Best Thing about Marriage is DivorceWild Man at IouzanMountains Belong to People Who Love ThemHunger at the MountainAn Inside Passage","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405248799063,"sku":"9780803232143","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803232143.jpg?v=1730489276","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-inside-passage-9780803232143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}