Sky Time in Gray's River
Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
$36.98
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2021
Summary
An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray’s River, near the mouth of the Columbia River. Sky Time in Gray’s River is an elegant meditation on life in the rural Northwest.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781640092785 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1640092781 |
| Author: | Robert Michael Pyle |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“An instant classic … one of the very best accounts of a closely observed life.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“A testament to one person’s determined attempt to live a rural life in complete concord with nature.” —The Oregonian
“A beautiful big-hearted book from a leading figure in the resurgence of American nature writing.” —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Piano Tide and Wild Comfort
Robert Michael Pyle
ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE is a biologist and writer who has worked in conservation biology around the world. His twenty-four books include Where Bigfoot Walks, four collections of poetry, the novel Magdalena Mountain, and a flight of butterfly books. Founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, he is a Guggenheim Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Pyle lives, writes, and studies natural history in rural southwest Washington.
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