Whether the subject is the plants that grow there, the animals
that live there, the rivers that run there, or the people he has
known there, Paul Lindholdt's "In Earshot of Water" illuminates the
Pacific Northwest in vivid detail. Lindholdt writes with the
precision of a naturalist, the critical eye of an ecologist, the
affection of an apologist, and the self-revelation and
self-awareness of a personal essayist in the manner of Annie
Dillard, Loren Eiseley, Derrick Jensen, John McPhee, Robert Michael
Pyle, and Kathleen Dean Moore. Exploring both the literal and
literary sense of place, with particular emphasis on environmental
issues and politics in the far Northwest, Lindholdt weds passages
from the journals of Lewis and Clark, the log of Captain James
Cook, the novelized memoir of Theodore Winthrop, and Bureau of
Reclamation records growing from the paintings that the agency
commissioned to publicize its dams in the 1960s and 1970s, to tell
ecological and personal histories of the region he knows and loves.
In Lindholdt's beautiful prose, America's environmental
legacies--those inherited from his blood relatives as well as those
from the influences of mass culture--and illuminations of the
hazards of neglecting nature's warning signs blur and merge and
reemerge in new forms. Themes of fathers and sons layer the book,
as well--the narrator as father and as son--interwoven with a call
to responsible social activism with appeals to reason and emotion.
Like water itself, "In Earshot of Water" cascades across boundaries
and blends genres, at once learned and literary.
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