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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xv, 200 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlichś love for winter--for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul--and out of the fear that our "democracy of gratification" has irreparably altered the climate. In The Future of Ice, Ehrlich travels to extreme points--from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Spitsbergen, east of Greenland, at the very top of the world--in her quest to...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At some point in every American Buddhist's life, he or she decides to take a spiritual journey to the East. Ehrlich's journey takes her to the Sichuan Province in China to climb Emei Shan, a sacred Buddhist mountain. Instead of finding a modern Shangri-La, she encounters a land destroyed by crass commercialism, corrupt monks, poverty, lamas, and scholars who are still deeply injured physically and psychologically by the atrocities of Mao Zedong's...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"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,...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
319 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle, Gretel Ehrlich paints a vivid portrait of the indigenous cultures that inhabit the starkly beautiful boreal landscape surrounding the Arctic Ocean, an ice-bound wilderness that includes northern Siberia, northwestern Greenland, Canada’s vast Nunavut, and northern Alaska. Ehrlich’s expedition, supported by the National Geographic Society, documents what remains of these cultures, specifically...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard).
Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of...
Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of...
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