02180nam a2200265 i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003900062040002700101082001700128100003000145245006500175264004100240300002300281336002100304337002500325338002300350520136800373600004001741600003001781650005101811655002101862655001701883655001401900OSt20210912101338.0210909s2021    nyu    g b    000 0 eng d  a9780307911797cRM116.80qhardback   aPPAKbengcPPAK erda 0A223a818.5409  aEhrlich, Gretel,eauthor.10aUnsolaced :bAlong the Way to All That Is /cGRETEL ENHRLICH 1aNew York : bPantheon Books,c[2021]  a237 pages :c22 cm  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  a"From one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world: an account of her search for home--experiences traveling in Greenland, the North Pole, the Channel Islands of California, Japan; of herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, and her embrace of the balance between the ordinary and celestial. In The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich announced her aspiration as a writer to assign the physical qualities of the earth--weather, light and wind--to our contemporary age. In Unsolaced, thirty-five years later, Ehrlich shows us how these forces have shaped her experience and her understanding as she recalls the split-end strands of friendships spliced to new loves, houses built and lived in, conversations that shifted outlooks, as she tries to catch a glimpse of herself and the places she has sought as an anchor for her spirit. Ehrlich's quest is not for the comfort of permanence, but for transience, the need to be unsettled--to find stillness in the disquiet of engagement, to find in the landscapes of earth, ice, climate, genetic mayhem, and shifting canvas of memory--the possibility of longing. Ehrlich's voice is a unique amalgam of poetry and science, her attention held fast by the vegetation and animals she cares for, the lyric exaltation of insight that gives both her and her readers an intimation of a greater whole"--1 aEhrlich, Gretel vHomes and haunts.1 aEhrlich, Gretel vTravel.10aAuthors, American vBiography. y20th century 7 aAutobiographies 7 aBiographies 7 aBiography