{"product_id":"to-breathe-with-birds-9780812246810","title":"To Breathe with Birds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book-length appearance of Vaclav Cilek's work in English translation, To Breathe with Birds delves into the imaginative and emotional bonds we form with landscapes and how human existence-a recent development, geologically speaking-shapes and is shaped by a sense of place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In reading these essays, I feel as if I have had the privilege of taking a very long walk through a landscape of towns, villages, and open countryside with an old friend. What is home to the author has in a sense become a second home to me through his vivid personal descriptions and recollections. This is a book for anyone who relishes the discovery of new places in the context of their historical evolution into a modern world that requires serious attention to ecological balance and sustainability.\" * Paula Deitz, author of the book \u003ci\u003eOf Gardens: Selected Essays\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a remarkable book, one that rescues a fragment of the world and offers us perception and knowledge of a very particular place, a cultural landscape of deep meaning, beauty, and value.\" * Laurie Olin, from the Foreword *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword, by Laurie Olin\u003cbr\u003e Preface: Gathering Strength and Drinking Dawn in the Landscape of Home\u003cbr\u003e 1. Geodiversity and Changes in the Bohemian Landscape\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Tree as a Family Member\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Revolution of Surface: Successful as Asphalt\u003cbr\u003e 4. Journey to Uničov or About the Gap Between the Birds\u003cbr\u003e 5. Walking Through a Landscape\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tranquillity at the Fundaments of the World\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Masked Moose and Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e 8. Dreaming About Vigilance: A Nut from Nine Undersea Hazel Trees\u003cbr\u003e 9. Journey to India: In Benares One Comes to Understand That One Was Born in Libeň\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Breath of Bones and Places\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Standard Central Bohemian Vision\u003cbr\u003e 12. Places from the Other Side\u003cbr\u003e 13. On Landscape Memory and the Stone of St. Ivan at Bytíz near Příbram\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Man Who Used to Write in a Forsaken Landscape\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Six-Cornered Snowflake\u003cbr\u003e 16. Bees of the Invisible\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405724918103,"sku":"9780812246810","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812246810.jpg?v=1730493400","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-breathe-with-birds-9780812246810","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}