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Overview
Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.
Winner of the 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, nominated for the American Book Award, and named by Booklist as an Editor's Choice, this is Nelson's lovely and luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest.
Synopsis
Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.
Publishers Weekly
Anthropologist Nelson tells of his self-sufficient existence on an island near the Pacific Northwest, practicing a respect for the wilderness learned from the Alaskan native peoples. ``Whether he is describing the remains of a clear-cut forest, a beached whale or a night in a petrel rookery, Nelson gives a notably sensitive portrait of island life,'' PW saidpk . (Apr.)