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The Walk

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Description

An exploration of the connection between personal history and natural history

Product Details

PublisherTrinity University Press
Publish DateAugust 25, 2009
Pages176
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781595340597
Dimensions7.8 X 5.1 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

William deBuys is a writer and conservationist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of The Walk and River of Traps, coauthored with Alex Harris, which was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a 1990 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. DeBuys's other books are Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California, which received a Western States Book Award, Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell, and A Great Aridness. His shorter work has appeared in many publications, including Story, Orion, and the New York Times Book Review.

Reviews

"DeBuys' pensive and quiet book offers a way out of despair and toward hope." - San Francisco Chronicle

"William deBuys' extended prose-poetic, meditative ramble through the fields and woods of his northern New Mexico home is a rare work of such quiet, lyrical beauty that it needs to be savored."- Albuquerque Journal

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