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"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo
Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate
change and other environmental degradations become more evident,
experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer
emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling
these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find
a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice. The concept of
solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht,
who describes it as "the homesickness we feel while still at home."
It's the pain and longing we feel as we realize the world
immediately around us is changing, with our love for that world
serving as a catalyst for action on its behalf. This powerful
anthology brings together thirty-four writers-educators,
journalists, poets, and scientists-to share their emotions in the
face of environmental crisis. They share their solastalgia, their
beloved places, their vulnerability, their stories, their vision of
what we can create.
How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts
explores the link between death and desire and what it means to
accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny,
or consider only with shame-our taboo desires and our grief. In
landscapes as diverse as Salamanca's cobbled streets, the Mekong
River's floating markets, Fire Island's windswept beaches,
Nashville's honky-tonks, and the Sierra Nevada's snowy slopes,
Roberts interrogates her memory and tries to make sense of her own
private losses (deaths of people and relationships), as well as
more public losses, including a mass shooting in her hometown and
environmental devastation in the Amazon rainforest. With lyricism,
insight, honesty, and dark humor, these essays illuminate the
sometimes terrible beauty of what it means to be human, deepening
the conversation on death and grief, sexuality, and the shame that
comes from surviving the world in a female body with all of its
complexities.
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature It
was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her
friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the
adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult
home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined
that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir,
part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is
Roberts’s account of that hike. John Muir wrote of the Sierra
Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and that was exactly what
Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one
experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and
bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of
reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry—confronting
bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange
men—is as much about finding a woman’s way into outdoor
experience as it is about the natural world Roberts so eloquently
describes. Candid and funny, and finally, wise, Almost Somewhere
not only tells the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman
ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also reflects a
distinctly feminine view of nature. This new edition includes an
afterword by the author looking back on the ways both she and the
John Muir Trail have changed over the past thirty years, as well as
book club and classroom discussion questions and photographs from
the trip.
2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner 2021
National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist 2020 Bronze Award for
Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists
Association 2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIES
Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist
takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us
what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own
desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and
landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub
drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the
love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels
Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her
cultural blind spots, things don't always go as planned. Fearlessly
confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts
offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of
confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of
herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey
packed with delights and surprises-both of the greater world and of
the mysterious workings of the heart.
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