"The real world goes like this: Coming down from the high lake, timbered ridges in slow green waves suddenly stop and bunch up like patiently disappointed refugees, waiting for permission to start walking out across the open prairie toward Nebraska, where the waters come together and form an enormous inland island, large parts of three states surrounded by water. The island never heard of states; the real world is the island."
- "The Real World" by James Galvin in A Place on Earth, edited by Mark Tredinnick
About the book:
A Place on Earth is an anthology of nature writing, some of it classic, some of it new, from Australia and North America. It brings together essays by many of the finest nature writers of our time on both continents, and it introduces some rich new voices to this literature of place.
Each essay brings to life a place that is special—sacred, even—to its author. This is a book of places—wild, lived in, grazed, fished in, explored, lost, and remembered. It is a lyric essay, in twenty-six voices, about what it means to live well on the land. It is a book of miraculous, ordinary places and of prose in which those places are alive. Here you will find desert and plateau, river and ice, city and farm, forest and grassland, man and woman, horse and bear, coyote and salmon, lyrebird and eagle, wind and rain, outback and seashore, sandstone and granite, she-oak and cottonwood, highland and lowland, harbor and wetland, ancient and modern, earth and sky, birth and death—just a few of the many compass points, the contour lines, the latitudes and longitudes of home. — From the publisher
Each essay brings to life a place that is special—sacred, even—to its author. This is a book of places—wild, lived in, grazed, fished in, explored, lost, and remembered. It is a lyric essay, in twenty-six voices, about what it means to live well on the land. It is a book of miraculous, ordinary places and of prose in which those places are alive. Here you will find desert and plateau, river and ice, city and farm, forest and grassland, man and woman, horse and bear, coyote and salmon, lyrebird and eagle, wind and rain, outback and seashore, sandstone and granite, she-oak and cottonwood, highland and lowland, harbor and wetland, ancient and modern, earth and sky, birth and death—just a few of the many compass points, the contour lines, the latitudes and longitudes of home. — From the publisher
About the editor:
Mark Tredinnick grew up in Epping, New South Wales, and now lives with his wife and family in the sandstone country near Katoomba, west of Sydney, Australia. He is coediting an anthology of Australian desert literature and writing a book-length lyric essay on Australia. — From the publisher.
Find a copy:
- A Place on Earth is available at the city campus at 814.008 TRED.
About Teaser Tuesdays:
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading! Everyone is welcome to play!
How it works:
1. Grab a book from your collection
2. Select 2 sentences that make an interesting teaser (avoid spoilers please!)
3. Post the sentences, along with author and book title in the comments of this post
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