The Paradise Notebooks : : 90 Miles across the Sierra Nevada / / Steven Nightingale, Richard J. Nevle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Nevle, Richard J.,; Nightingale, Steven,
• MitwirkendeR: Lanas, Mattias,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 21 b&w line drawings, 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Setting Out --; Stone, Fire, Water --; Granite --; Obsidian --; Roof Pendants --; Brokenness --; Clouds --; Snow --; Glacier --; River --; Forest --; Fire --; Range of Life --; Bighorn --; Aspen --; Paintbrush --; Whitebark and Nutcracker --; Pileated Woodpecker --; Belding’s Ground Squirrel --; Mountain Chickadee --; Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog --; Western Tanager --; Sierra Nevada Parnassian --; Epilogue --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501762802; 9783110751826; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501762802?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Steven Nightingale, Richard J. Nevle.

In The Paradise Notebooks, Richard Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact.Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, Nevle and Nightingale contemplate the natural phenomena found in the Sierra Nevada. From granite, to aspen, to fire, to a rare, endemic species of butterfly, these essay pairs explore the natural history and mystical wonder of each element with a balanced and captivating touch. As they weave in vignettes from their ninety-mile backpacking trip across the range, Nevle and Nightingale powerfully reconceive the Sierra Nevada as both earthly matter and transcendental offering, letting us into a reality in which nature holds just as much spiritual importance as it does physical.In a time of rapid environmental degradation, The Paradise Notebooks offers a way forward—a whole-minded, learned, loving attention to place that rekindles our joyful relationship with the living world.