The Island Within

by Richard Nelson

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679732396
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/23/1991
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	539,531
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Richard Nelson is a cultural anthropologist whose previous books include Shadow of the Hunter, Hunters of the Northern Forest, Hunters of the Northern Ice, Make Prayers to the Raven, and The Island Within, for which he won the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding natural history writing. He is also a winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.

Editorial Reviews

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.)

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