The East Country

Almanac Tales of Valley and Shore

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Jules Pretty

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Paperback / softback

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The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic Sand Country Almanac, bringing Leopold's ethic-that so"The East Country, like all accomplished works of close ecological focus, moves cleverly between the intensely local and the universal. Jules Pretty unites his two distinguished careers-as a biologist and as a writer in the broad fields of nature, place and landscape-to encourage 'long attachments to the local' as profoundly valuable undertakings."-Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways and Landmarksme could live without nature but most should not-into the twenty-first century. In The East Country, Pretty follows the seasons through seventy-four tales set in a variety of landscapes from valley to salty shore. Pretty convinces us that we should all develop long attachments to the local, observing that the land can change us for the better.

Author Biography:

Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Edge of Extinction and This Luminous Coast, both from Cornell, and The Earth Only Endures. He is coeditor most recently of Green Exercise.

Release date NZ

September 15th, 2017

Author

Jules Pretty

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

14 Halftones, black and white

Pages

158

Dimensions

152x229x9

ISBN-13

9781501709333

Product ID

26832155

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