Unsolaced
Along the Way to All That Is
Published on 5. January 2021
256 pages
978-0-307-91180-3 (ISBN)
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From the author of the enduring classic, The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse has shaped her life and understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis.
Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in dadth, and as elegant as a Japanese tea house. "Sentience and sunderance," she writes. "How we know what we know, how we lose it all." As if to stave off impending loss, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan and an uninhabited Alaskan Island, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them.
Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in dadth, and as elegant as a Japanese tea house. "Sentience and sunderance," she writes. "How we know what we know, how we lose it all." As if to stave off impending loss, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan and an uninhabited Alaskan Island, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them.
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GRETEL EHRLICH is the author of Facing the Wave, The Future of Ice, Heart Mountain, The Solace of Open Spaces, This Cold Heaven, and Unsolsced, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Ehrlich studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She divides her time between Montana and Hawaii.
