Circling Home (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)

Circling Home (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
by John Lane

Circling Home (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
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Author: John Lane
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN: 082033040X
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Book Review: Makes you think!
Summary: 5 Stars

John Lane's book has made me think of how I view the neighborhood around me (history, old buildings, railroad tracks to nowhere).

I can identify with John when he flashes back to the time that he is adrift in his personal and professional life. In the summer, he hits the road in his 4X4 truck and kayak seeking adventure (or just a good time) in white water spread throughout the country. He does this as his peers are settling down and becoming tenure professors.

John, unlike mot of us, slows down and takes the time to connect to his natural surroundings (specifically those around his home). By learning the history, ecology, and smells around him he is able to refloect and learn so much about life.

At 33 I struggle between wanting to travel the world and growing roots in my present community. Here in Chicago there is a steep distinction between urban and suburban life. John's book speaks to this in a smaller scale but with all the same issues.

I recommend this book to everyone because there is every life stage represented within it.

Summary of Circling Home (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)

After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont. He, his wife, and two stepsons built a sustainable home in the woods near Lawson's Fork Creek. Soon after settling in, Lane pinpointed his location on a topographical map. Centering an old, chipped saucer over his home, he traced a circle one mile in radius and set out to explore the area.


What follows from that simple act is a chronicle of Lane's deepening knowledge of the place where he'll likely finish out his life. An accomplished hiker and paddler, Lane discovers, within a mile of his home, a variety of coexistent landscapes--ancient and modern, natural and manmade. There is, of course, the creek with its granite shoals, floodplain, and surrounding woods. The circle also encompasses an eight-thousand-year-old cache of Native American artifacts, graves of a dozen British soldiers killed in 1780, an eighteenth-century ironworks site, remnants of two cotton plantations, a hundred-year-old country club, a sewer plant, and a smattering of mid- to late twentieth-century subdivisions.


Lane's explorations intensify his bonds to family, friends, and colleagues as they sharpen his sense of place. By looking more deeply at what lies close to home, both the ordinary and the remarkable, Lane shows us how whole new worlds can open up.

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