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

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.

Table of Contents

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 -- Sierra Nevada Parnassian -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References