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Book SynopsisAnnie Dillard observes "The best of Edward Hoagland is the best in the land." Now, in a beautiful new hardcover edition, signed by the author, and including new material, comes the best observations on nature by the finest essayist of our time.
Trade Review"The best essayist of my generation."—John Updike"America's most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist."—Philip Roth"One of the very best writers of his generation."—Saul Bellow"Edward Hoagland is a strong, solid writer with a splendid feel for the intricacy, queerness and stubborn pertinacity of life. He is also, so far as I know, the best essayist working in our perishing republic."—Edward Abbey "Hoagland is our wild world's literary virtuoso."—Annie Proulx"The Thoreau of our time, an essayist so intensely personal, so sharp-eyed and deep-sighted, so tender and tough, lyrical and elegiac, as to transmute a simple stroll into a full-blown mystical experience."—Washington Post "The best of Edward Hoagland is the best in the land."—Annie Dillard"Hoagland, one of the few American writers who has forged a brilliant career out of essays, is our Chopin of the genre."—Joyce Carol Oates"One of the best celebrants of the natural world."--The Atlantic"Hoagland is surely one of our most truthful writers about nature . . ."--The New York Times Book Review
