The Small Heart of Things : Being at Home in a Beckoning World Paperback / softback
by Julian Hoffman
Part of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction series
Paperback / softback
Description
In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it’s a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds ranging high mountain pastures, a quail taking cover on an empty steppe, or a Turkmen family emigrating from Afghanistan to Istanbul. Guided by Rainer Maria Rilke’s belief that “everything beckons us to perceive it,” Hoffman explores the area around the Prespa Lakes, shared by Greece, Albania, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
From there he travels widely, believing that through awareness, curiosity, and openness we have the potential to forge abiding relationships with a range of places.
The Small Heart of Things is a book about looking and listening.
It incorporates travel and natural history writing, interweaving human stories with those of wild creatures as Hoffman illuminates how, when we accord places our close and patient attention, these many connections can teach us to be at home in the world.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:University of Georgia Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2014
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- ISBN:9780820347578
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:University of Georgia Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780820347578
