
Map for the Heart
Ida Valley essays
Jillian Sullivan(Author)
Otago University Press
Published on 8. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-988592-56-5 (ISBN)
Description
"To live in Central Otago is to come to terms with the dominance of nature. Writer Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the Ida Valley where she lives, and follow the Manuherekia River from the mountains to its confluence with the Clutha/Mata-au. Her aim was to explore not only the land and river for themselves, but the ways in which we grow in intimacy with where we live; how our histories, and those of the people who went before us, our experiences of loss and love, our awakening to what is around us, bring us closer to community closer to a meaningful life.Map for the Heart is a haunting collection of essays braiding history and memoir with environmentalism. It leads readers to the core of the questions that persist throughout a life: who to love, how to love, how to be independent and yet how to live a moral life that also cares for others."--Back cover.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dunedin
New Zealand
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-988592-56-5 (9781988592565)
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11/2021
Otago University Press
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Person
Jillian Sullivan lives and writes in the Ida Valley, Central Otago. Her 12 published books include creative non-fiction, novels, memoir, short story collections, and poetry. She teaches writing workshops in New Zealand and the US. Once the drummer in a women's indie pop band, her passion now is natural building and earth plastering. Her latest book is the memoir A Way Home, about building her own strawbale home (Potton and Burton, 2016).