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Never in human history has travel been so accessible to so many.
But amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of
vulnerable people across the world, has the human cost of trekking
the globe become too high? Paul Lindholdt links firsthand
narratives with research about the travel trade, telling stories of
his reluctant voyages while arguing that carbon-intensive trips
abroad may be offset if adventurers come to know and love the
landscapes closer to home. Tourism may be the planet's largest
industry, but Interrogating Travel advises readers to stay mindful
of the consequences of their journeys, whether visiting local
getaways or some of Earth's most remote locations.
From Lake Coeur d'Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the
Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular
terrain-rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading
and gathering place for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
With bountiful trout, accessible swimming holes, and challenging
rapids, it is a recreational magnet for residents and tourists
alike. The Spokane also bears the legacy of industrial growth and
remains caught amid interests competing over natural resources. The
contributors to this collection profile this living river through
personal reflection, history, science, and poetry. They bring a
keen environmental awareness of resource scarcity, climate change,
and cultural survival tied to the river's fate.
From Lake Coeur d'Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the
Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular
terrain-rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading
and gathering place for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
With bountiful trout, accessible swimming holes, and challenging
rapids, it is a recreational magnet for residents and tourists
alike. The Spokane also bears the legacy of industrial growth and
remains caught amid interests competing over natural resources. The
contributors to this collection profile this living river through
personal reflection, history, science, and poetry. They bring a
keen environmental awareness of resource scarcity, climate change,
and cultural survival tied to the river's fate.
A chief innovation of Explorations in Ecocriticism is to push
ecological criticism beyond its focus on literary studies to engage
with other arts and culture. One chapter closely examines the
pictures commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to valorize
its big dam projects. Previously, no one has written about the
large art collection that toured the nation under the auspices of
the Smithsonian in the early 1970s, when the Bureau of Reclamation
was under fire and new environmental regulations were becoming law.
Another chapter, "An Iconography of Sabotage," previously published
in France as part of a Paris symposium, looks at the pictorial
dimension of saboteurs throughout American history, with a special
emphasis on the IWW and Earth First! The book draws extensively on
the social sciences. Ecology and environment are treated too often
as technical topics that go over the heads of lay readers. Many
Americans care about air and water quality, the extinction of
species, and the unfortunate politicization of science. But they
also find the discourse daunting, the details exceedingly complex.
By leavening such heavy subjects with current events, Explorations
in Ecocriticism makes environmental issues accessible to lay
readers and offers routes to sustainability in the United States
today.
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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