Coves of Departure : : Field Notes from the Sea of Cortez / / John Seibert Farnsworth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Farnsworth, John Seibert,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)

In a book that has been called "a love song to nature," the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. While much of the book narrates his experience as a writing professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago each year during spring break, the book also reflects on experiences with a condor restoration project in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, and an altogether different teaching experience based in a field station on Bahia de los Angeles. While the author’s intent is to evoke Baja ecologies in fresh ways, the reader comes to realize that he’s also describing how education can become a transformational experience. A retired scuba instructor who turned to academics and went on to receive his college’s highest teaching award, Dr. Farnsworth believes that education should be a lifelong adventure, and that explorations of the natural world should be animated by reverence and delight.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Headwinds -- 1. Vernal Equinox -- 2. Night Life -- 3. Transect in the Sierra de la Laguna -- 4. To the Island -- First Interlude: August in Bahia de los Angeles -- 5. Same Beach, Different Expedition -- 6. Sea Sparkle -- 7. Red Sky at Morning -- Second Interlude: June in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir -- Essay: The Cove of Departure -- 8. Death and Poetry in the Sand Dunes -- Tailwind -- Bibliography