Fear Falls Away and Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places Paperback - 1997
by Janice Emily Bowers
From the jacket flap
Jan Bowers lives in the right place. A lover of nature and the outdoors, an avid hiker and backpacker, she is surrounded by mountain ridges, peaks, and canyons of almost every description. In this book, she invites us to come along and find out why some of these places are special, why some of them stay in her mind long after she has returned to the workaday world of the city. Readers have come to expect the best from this writer, termed "a rare talent. . . uncommonly good at the craft" by "Wilderness" magazine. Her new book is filled with creeks and meadows, tiny ferns and towering oaks, bears and butterflies and Red-tailed Hawks. We see gray clouds clogging the sky in a canyon, "wildly, almost tastelessly romantic, as full of clouds as a tea kettle with steam," and we startle a female grouse and her half-dozen fuzzy chicks "exploding from underfoot like billiard balls scattered with a cue stick." Faced with the prospect of moving to another place, Bowers finds herself thinking about the familiar world in new and unfamiliar ways. Through her eyes, too, we see how an interest in nature and the outdoors developed from early childhood and how simple curiosity has led her to the most surprising discoveries. At odd and unexpected moments, her work also seems to bring new insights into herself and her life as a writer, a wife, and a mother. These pages promise a new adventure at every turn in the trail. For sheer terror, there's a climb up the face of Baboquivari, for laughs, there's the great bagworm caper, and for some quiet truths, there are themes of gain and loss, of connection and reconcilliation. Crunching through winter snow or sweating under summer sun, we know we're in the hands ofan experienced guide. And we know we couldn't ask for a better companion.
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- Title Fear Falls Away and Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places
- Author Janice Emily Bowers
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Pb Ptg.
- Pages 169
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson AZ
- Date 1997-07
- ISBN 9780816517183 / 0816517185
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.51 x 0.51 in (21.54 x 14.00 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Arizona
- Library of Congress subjects Bowers, Janice Emily, Natural history - Arizona - Santa Catalina
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-4659
- Dewey Decimal Code 917.910
Media reviews
Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/1997, Page 923
- Library Journal, 08/01/1997, Page 123
- Publishers Weekly, 06/23/1997, Page 79
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