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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2016-11-15
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN
- 9781619028364
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1619028360
ISBN-13
9781619028364
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222034784
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coast Range : a Collection from the Pacific Edge
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Personal Memoirs, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Essays
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-020226
Reviews
"Welcome a strong new voice for the silver beaches, pine forests, and shining rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Like the agates in his pockets, Nick Neely's essays are highly polished - translucent, but shot through with hard veins of natural science. Imagine Wallace Stegner in conversation with Ed Ricketts, when they are both young and still astonished. Then you can begin to understand the creativity, the power, the beauty, and the fun of Coast Range ."--Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising "These are nature essays with a difference: the sureness and delicacy with which Nick Neely directs our attention from the miracles of the outer world to the gyroscopic peculiarities of his consciousness make for a very satisfying reading experience." --Phillip Lopate "What a superb writer Nick Neely is and just the kind of natural history observer we need in a time of fierce change. He enlivens chiton, newt, hummingbird in the sapling outside the Safeway, and more, with keen eyes and ears, quick veers of mind and syntax, and an abiding sense of the connection between the wild and the made worlds. Precise, gorgeous and imaginatively wed to both science and myth, his rendering of Coyote brings the creature smack-dab into twenty-first-century America, as soul-troubling as ever he was in myth and landscape. A fine collection to read and savor." --Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies "I don't know if 'God is in the detail,' as the saying goes, but I think much of nature is. Nick Neely's Coast Range is an erudite, eloquent demonstration of that, from the vividly evoked details of ancient mollusks scraping their way into rocks to those of even more ancient fungi lacing themselves into tree roots. And it deftly connects 'the detail' in unexpected ways: our appetite for mushrooms and the origins of our languages; Anna's hummingbirds and modern history. Neely's vigilant, wry commentaries on his native patch--the west coast in general and southwest Bay Area in particular-- are not only in the tradition of Thoreau's Walden but in an older and wider one that he shares with Thoreau: what Thoreau calls 'The Great Dragon Tree' of mythic vision that is associated with Homer and Sophocles but also lives in Aristotle, Herodotus, Pliny, and other classical naturalists." --David Rains Wallace, author of Mountains and Marshes and The Klamath Knot, "Finely tuned essays that vary intriguingly in form and tone . . . Neely capably explores the complexity of his subjects with polish and finesse, looking carefully and thinking deeply." -- Kirkus , Starred Review "Neely's fascination with a huge swath of the Pacific Northwest coastal range is evident in this quiet essay collection that focuses on small details described in carefully studied prose . . . This is the sort of introspective writing that will appeal strongly to readers seeking to gain a deeper appreciation of their environment, and those with curiosity about or longing for the region he knows so well. Neely clearly spent a lot of time watching and listening, both to the people and animals that call the area home, and his observations have real staying power." -- Booklist "Welcome a strong new voice for the silver beaches, pine forests, and shining rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Like the agates in his pockets, Nick Neely's essays are highly polished - translucent, but shot through with hard veins of natural science. Imagine Wallace Stegner in conversation with Ed Ricketts, when they are both young and still astonished. Then you can begin to understand the creativity, the power, the beauty, and the fun of Coast Range." --Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising "I don''t know if "God is in the detail," as the saying goes, but I think much of nature is. Nick Neely''s Coast Range is an erudite, eloquent demonstration of that, from the vividly evoked details of ancient mollusks scraping their way into rocks to those of even more ancient fungi lacing themselves into tree roots. And it deftly connects "the detail" in unexpected ways: our appetite for mushrooms and the origins of our languages; Anna''s hummingbirds and modern history. Neely''s vigilant, wry commentaries on his native patch of the west coast are not only in the tradition of Thoreau''s Walden but in an older and wider one that he shares with Thoreau: what Thoreau calls "the great-dragon Tree" of mythic vision that is associated with Homer and Sophocles but also lives in Aristotle, Herodotus, Pliny, and other classical naturalists." --David Wallace, author of Mountains and Marshes and The Untamed Garden "These are nature essays with a difference: the sureness and delicacy with which Nick Neely directs our attention from the miracles of the outer world to the gyroscopic peculiarities of his consciousness make for a very satisfying reading experience." --Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and Tell and The Art of the Personal Essay "What a superb writer Nick Neely is and just the kind of natural history observer we need in a time of fierce change. He enlivens chiton, newt, hummingbird in the sapling outside the Safeway, and more, with keen eyes and ears, quick veers of mind and syntax, and an abiding sense of the connection between the wild and the made worlds. Precise, gorgeous and imaginatively wed to both science and myth, his rendering of Coyote brings the creature smack-dab into twenty-first-century America, as soul-troubling as ever he was in myth and landscape. A fine collection to read and savor." --Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies and The Edges of the Civilized World "Nick Neely is a searcher and, lucky for us, a collector as well. Coast Range is his collection, his "open-air curiosity cabinet," full of newts, agates, madrones, mushrooms, coyote, salmon, paw prints, bones and beautiful sentences. He is a precise writer and his essays are brilliant in the shining sense. But as well as being an accurate observer of the natural world, he is an exuberant participant, and we are both pulled in and lifted up by his generous, buoyant and ever-curious spirit. An important book, and one full of life and joy." --David Gessner, Author of All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West, "These are nature essays with a difference: the sureness and delicacy with which Nick Neely directs our attention from the miracles of the outer world to the gyroscopic peculiarities of his consciousness make for a very satisfying reading experience." --Phillip Lopate "What a superb writer Nick Neely is and just the kind of natural history observer we need in a time of fierce change. He enlivens chiton, newt, hummingbird in the sapling outside the Safeway, and more, with keen eyes and ears, quick veers of mind and syntax, and an abiding sense of the connection between the wild and the made worlds. Precise, gorgeous and imaginatively wed to both science and myth, his rendering of Coyote brings the creature smack-dab into twenty-first-century America, as soul-troubling as ever he was in myth and landscape. A fine collection to read and savor." --Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies "I don't know if 'God is in the detail,' as the saying goes, but I think much of nature is. Nick Neely's Coast Range is an erudite, eloquent demonstration of that, from the vividly evoked details of ancient mollusks scraping their way into rocks to those of even more ancient fungi lacing themselves into tree roots. And it deftly connects 'the detail' in unexpected ways: our appetite for mushrooms and the origins of our languages; Anna's hummingbirds and modern history. Neely's vigilant, wry commentaries on his native patch--the west coast in general and southwest Bay Area in particular-- are not only in the tradition of Thoreau's Walden but in an older and wider one that he shares with Thoreau: what Thoreau calls 'The Great Dragon Tree' of mythic vision that is associated with Homer and Sophocles but also lives in Aristotle, Herodotus, Pliny, and other classical naturalists." --David Rains Wallace, author of Mountains and Marshes and The Klamath Knot, "Welcome a strong new voice for the silver beaches, pine forests, and shining rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Like the agates in his pockets, Nick Neely's essays are highly polished - translucent, but shot through with hard veins of natural science. Imagine Wallace Stegner in conversation with Ed Ricketts, when they are both young and still astonished. Then you can begin to understand the creativity, the power, the beauty, and the fun of Coast Range." --Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising "I don't know if "God is in the detail," as the saying goes, but I think much of nature is. Nick Neely's Coast Range is an erudite, eloquent demonstration of that, from the vividly evoked details of ancient mollusks scraping their way into rocks to those of even more ancient fungi lacing themselves into tree roots. And it deftly connects "the detail" in unexpected ways: our appetite for mushrooms and the origins of our languages; Anna's hummingbirds and modern history. Neely's vigilant, wry commentaries on his native patch of the west coast are not only in the tradition of Thoreau's Walden but in an older and wider one that he shares with Thoreau: what Thoreau calls "the great-dragon Tree" of mythic vision that is associated with Homer and Sophocles but also lives in Aristotle, Herodotus, Pliny, and other classical naturalists." --David Wallace, author of Mountains and Marshes and The Untamed Garden "These are nature essays with a difference: the sureness and delicacy with which Nick Neely directs our attention from the miracles of the outer world to the gyroscopic peculiarities of his consciousness make for a very satisfying reading experience." --Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and Tell and The Art of the Personal Essay "What a superb writer Nick Neely is and just the kind of natural history observer we need in a time of fierce change. He enlivens chiton, newt, hummingbird in the sapling outside the Safeway, and more, with keen eyes and ears, quick veers of mind and syntax, and an abiding sense of the connection between the wild and the made worlds. Precise, gorgeous and imaginatively wed to both science and myth, his rendering of Coyote brings the creature smack-dab into twenty-first-century America, as soul-troubling as ever he was in myth and landscape. A fine collection to read and savor." --Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies and The Edges of the Civilized World "Nick Neely is a searcher and, lucky for us, a collector as well. Coast Range is his collection, his "open-air curiosity cabinet," full of newts, agates, madrones, mushrooms, coyote, salmon, paw prints, bones and beautiful sentences. He is a precise writer and his essays are brilliant in the shining sense. But as well as being an accurate observer of the natural world, he is an exuberant participant, and we are both pulled in and lifted up by his generous, buoyant and ever-curious spirit. An important book, and one full of life and joy." --David Gessner, Author of All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West
Synopsis
"Finely tuned essays that vary intriguingly in form and tone . . . Neely capably explores the complexity of his subjects with polish and finesse, looking carefully and thinking deeply." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review COAST: the edge of land, or conversely the edgeof sea. RANGE: a measure between limits, or thescope or territory of a thing. Coast Range , the debut collection of essays fromwriter Nick Neely, meticulously and thoughtfullydwells on these intersections and much more.The book's title refers to the region in whichthese essays are set: the California and Oregoncoastal ranges. In deeply moving prose equal partsexhilarating and pensive, each essay explores aniconic organism (a few geologic), so that, on thewhole, the collection becomes a curiosity cabinet that freshly embodies this Pacific Northwestlandscape. But the book also employs a playful rangeof forms. Just as forest gives way to bluff andocean, here narrative journalism adjoins memoirand lyric essay. These associative, sensuous, andsometimes saturnine pieces are further entwinedby the theme of "collecting" itself--beginningwith a meditation on the impulse to gather beachagates, a semiprecious stone. Another essay follows the journey of salmon from their "collection" at a hatchery through a casino kitchento a tribal coming-of-age ceremony; a third is aflitting exploration of hummingbirds. Neely alsodescribes, in vivid detail, his six-month stretchliving off the grid along the Rogue River, whichignited his healthy obsession with Oregon. In Coast Range , Neely fashions a kaleidoscope ofessays, of which the overarching curiosity is thetransient, but finally transcendent, nature of theworld we live in., Coast: the edge of land, or conversely the edge of sea. Range: a measure between limits, or the scope or territory of a thing. Coast Range , the debut collection of essays from writer Nick Neely, meticulously and thoughtfully dwells on these intersections and much more. The book's title refers to the region in which these essays are set: the California and Oregon coastal ranges. In deeply moving prose equal parts exhilarating and pensive, each essay explores an iconic organism (a few geologic), so that, on the whole, the collection becomes a curiosity cabinet that freshly embodies this Pacific Northwest landscape. But the book also employs a playful range of forms. Just as forest gives way to bluff and ocean, here narrative journalism adjoins memoir and lyric essay. These associative, sensuous, and sometimes saturnine pieces are further entwined by the theme of "collecting" itself--beginning with a meditation on the impulse to gather beach agates, a semiprecious stone. Another essay follows the journey of salmon from their "collection" at a hatchery through a casino kitchen to a tribal coming-of-age ceremony; a third is a flitting exploration of hummingbirds.
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