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To paraphrase a sentence in the author’s introduction, if anyone had told me I’d be reading about soil, much less be fascinated and excited about it, I’d have said they were crazy, but I was so engrossed in this lively, hopeful book that I read it all in one day. There is a lot of science, but it’s...
Beautifully written, poetic prose from an author who is completely in love with Greenland and the arctic
Small collection of essays about a mountain climbing pilgrimage to China in the mid-90s. Ehrlich finds it a depressing place - until she gets to Lijiang and meets musicians who are trying to preserve some of the heritage that has been shattered by the Cultural Revolution.
Impersonal, fragmented, context-free writing (I can’t bring myself to call it narrative) overrun by egregiously bad metaphors and similes. I don’t know how something can feel so self-indulgent and still give you no indication who the author is. Thankfully, there were brief moments that managed to sp...
Greenland. She doesn't live in Greenland, but clearly has spent considerable time there over many years, and eaten a great deal of raw seal while crouched in the lee of a glacier, which is good enough for me.Ehrlich's account of her multiple trips to Greenland is a bit like hallucinatory/incantatory...
Part travelogue, part journal, Gretel Ehrlich writes from her own wild west Walden Pond -- but it's got sage brush, rattlesnakes, tornadoes and nights that hit 40 below. She says she didn't plan to stay. She came to "the planet of Wyoming" after the loss of her partner, to write an article for PBS(?...
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