Bonelight: Ruin And Grace In The New Southwest (Environmental Arts and Humanities)

Bonelight: Ruin And Grace In The New Southwest (Environmental Arts and Humanities)
by Mary Sojourner

Bonelight: Ruin And Grace In The New Southwest (Environmental Arts and Humanities)
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Author: Mary Sojourner
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN: 0874175100
Number of pages: 184
Publisher: University of Nevada Press

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Book Review: Harsh and heartbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars

Mary Sojourner has the unique talent for taking us, with just a few strokes of the pen, into the stark, cold underbelly of human greed and arrogance, then flinging us into the heartbreaking beauty of the natural world. As a lone warrior and guardian of that natural world, she stops at nothing to protect it, facing arrest and the lawyers of multi-million dollar corporations with the same unyielding stance. Her essays are a testament to the best--and the worst--of the human spirit and this world we live in.

Summary of Bonelight: Ruin And Grace In The New Southwest (Environmental Arts and Humanities)

When upstate New Yorker Mary Sojourner reluctantly agreed to visit the Grand Canyon of Arizona nearly two decades ago, she little suspected that she was about to lose her heart to the daunting, gut-wrenching beauty of the Southwest, or that she would shortly find there a home, a passion for the land, and a cause in protecting it. Since then, she has become acclaimed as an environmental writer and respected as a grass-roots activist protesting the heedless development of the Southwest's increasingly precious and embattled open spaces.

The essays collected in Bonelight reflect Sojourner's southwestern journey from greenhorn to old-timer, from tourist to committed defender of the land and the human communities that share it. She writes of exploring the deserts, forests, canyons, mountains, and river rapids of the Southwest, and of her passionate love for this austere and ravishing landscape; of family, friends, and lovers, a woman's wary passage into middle age, the discovery of peace and balance in the execution of mundane chores and in the close observation of natural surroundings; of the ways that development is destroying the Southwest's fragile beauty, and of the greed and spiritual emptiness that motivate much of this development. There is humor here, and adventure, and the intense intimacy of a writer who dares confront the world around her with bold candor and a lover's tender gaze. Mary Sojourner's Southwest is a world that, through these graceful and engaging essays, we can all share-and fall in! love with.

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