02267nam a2200301 i 4500 OSt 20210912101338.0 210909s2021 nyu g b 000 0 eng d 9780307911797 RM116.80 hardback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 818.5409 818.5409 EHR G Ehrlich, Gretel, author. Unsolaced : Along the Way to All That Is / GRETEL ENHRLICH New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] 237 pages : 22 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume "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"-- Ehrlich, Gretel Homes and haunts. Ehrlich, Gretel Travel. Authors, American Biography. 20th century Autobiographies Biographies Biography ddc B 184895 184895 0 0 PPAK G 2021-09-14 818.5409 EHR A01704916 2021-09-14 00:00:00 B