The Prophet of Dry Hill
Lessons from a Life in Nature
$28.99
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
David Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature-writing legend, author of fifteen books, Hay was something of a hero to the younger Gessner. But it wasn’t until he returned to his childhood home on Cape Cod that Gessner befriended the older man. At first, Gessner thought he might write a biography of a writer he admired, but Hay became more friend than subject, and Gessner’s book became a dramatic record of what the young man learned from his elder.The Prophet of Dry Hill is the beautifu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807005989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807005983 |
| Author: | David Gessner |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 139mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
“This book is an enormous gift, an act of preservation as important as any chunk of land purchased by the Nature Conservancy.”
—Bill McKibben
“For people who truly live there, Cape Cod is not a place but a religion. And for many, the environmentalist John Hay is its prophet.”
—Amanda Heller, Boston Globe
“A tender, luminous book … a picture of the young writer as pilgrim, seeking to connect with a living tradition even as it slips away, and in the process, discovering a new story of his own.”
—John Tallmadge, Orion
About The Author
David Gessner
David Gessner is the author of ten books, including The Return of the Osprey and All the Wild That Remains. Gessner is the editor of Ecotone and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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