Virgin Forest - Hardcover

Zencey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820319899 ISBN 13: 9780820319896

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Synopsis

With this book Eric Zencey changes the way we think about nature by changing how we think about history. Zencey's way home takes us many places: to a starlit mountaintop, where a nineteenth-century sect awaits the second coming; to the northern woods during hunting season; to the salt marshes of a Delaware childhood; to the softball games and abandoned mill ponds of his adopted Vermont. Always we are shown a world outside our preconceptions. Virgin Forest is a passionate call for ecological health. It amply demonstrates (as the final essay has it) "Why History Is Sublime"; if we suffer a postmodern lack of grounding, only a rooted-in-place ecological sensibility can supply our need, and historical understanding is its inescapable prerequisite.

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Review

"If you were to pick one person who sees deepest into environmentalism, I think that person might be Eric Zencey. And if you were to list the four or five best writers in the field, I know for sure he'd be one of them."--Noel Perrin, author of "First Person Rural"

"Offers many erudite and reflective lessons on nature and our place in it."--"Publishers Weekly"

"These philosophical essays . . . should intrigue those who enjoy exploring unexpected connections and fresh insights."--"Library Journal"

"Infinitely wise and unflinching."--Bill McKibben

"In a time of rising ecological concern and interest "Virgin Forest" is a useful book to readers who are interested in the philosophical side of ecology, culture and history, and who want to understand the deeper forces behind moral ecology, before they study the more practical application of environmental history."--"Environment and History"

"[Zencey] is a fine essayist with a graceful, quiet voice and a talent for putting some of the more vexing environmental questions of our time into perspective."--"Outside"

"Puts Zencey in the high company of pro-nature intellectuals like Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson."--"Advocate"

If you were to pick one person who sees deepest into environmentalism, I think that person might be Eric Zencey. And if you were to list the four or five best writers in the field, I know for sure he'd be one of them.--Noel Perrin "author of "First Person Rural" "

[Zencey] is a fine essayist with a graceful, quiet voice and a talent for putting some of the more vexing environmental questions of our time into perspective.--"Outside"

Infinitely wise and unflinching.--Bill McKibben

About the Author

Eric Zencey is the author of the best-selling novel "Panama" and a contributing editor for the "North American Review." He lives in Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820319899
• ISBN 13: 9780820319896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182