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Pandora's Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the
natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures
sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other.
Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, the
chapters in Pandora's Garden are like the biospheres of the globe;
as the successive chapters unfold, they blend together like
ecotones, creating a microcosm of the world in which we sustain
nonhuman lives but also contain them. There are many reasons
particular flora and fauna may be unwanted, from the physical to
the psychological. Sometimes they may possess inherent qualities
that when revealed help us to interrogate human perception and our
relationship to an unwanted other. Pandora's Garden is primarily
about creatures that humans don't get along with, such as
rattlesnakes and sharks, but the chapters also take on a range of
other subjects, including stolen children in Australia, the
treatment of illegal immigrants in Texas, and the disgust function
of the human limbic system. Peters interweaves these diverse
subjects into a whole that mirrors the evolving and interrelated
world whose surprises and oddities he delights in revealing.
With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his
travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical
to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal
injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters
lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in
central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the
rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay
collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed
with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including
an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese
volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create
and end identities?
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