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The Comforts and Perils of Home |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Henry Taylor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,790 Words, 15,525 Characters |
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THE ISLAND WITHIN
Richard Nelson
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989
280 pp., $18.95
COUNTRY CURED
Reflections from the Heart
Jerry Bledsoe
Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1989
196 pp., $14.95
“I have traveled a good deal in Concord," Thoreau wrote, and his example demonstrated that the wonders available to an observant patience might be anywhere. In the past twenty years or so, along with a growing public awareness of nature's apparent withdrawal from us, there has been a spate of nonfiction books about nature. Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Jim Harrison, Maxine Kumin, Barry Lopez, Noel Perrin, and William Warner are only a few of the more noticeable writers who have portrayed a place and the evolution of their relationship to it. Now, from nearly opposite ...
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...atters by which our lives could be enriched, if only we could take the trouble to understand them better. Nelson, though he nearly trivializes the Koyukon people by mentioning them so often, is a better guide to the spiritual and ethical thickets of contemporary life than Bledsoe; Country Cured may enjoy wide circulation in Guilford Country, but it has too strong flavor of ham to travel far.
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