Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
New York: Avon Books, 1995.
First Avon Books Trade Printing. Paperback.
First Avon Books trade printing. Field Notes is the final book of a loosely connected trilogy that includes Desert Notes (1976) and River Notes (1979).
Publisher's description: in this collection of twelve stories, National Book Award winner Barry Lopez evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.
An anthropologist traveling with aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.
Item #902670ISBN: 0380724820
8" x 5-1/4", stiff pictorial wrappers, 176pp.
Mild toning, fine.
Price: $10.00