The Island Within
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865474044 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nelson tramps through forest and muskeg with his dog; he roams the beaches and chances solitary surfing. From Publishers Weekly In his work among Alaskan native peoples, anthropologist Nelson came to admire their relationship with the environment and sought to emulate it. Thus his exploration of an island off the Pacific Northwest coast is a search for a way of belonging to its natural community, to be not only observer, but participant in its life cycle. Living in an isolated area, Nelson depends on hunting and fishing for food, but he accords each animal he kills the respect taught him by the Alaskan natives. Whether he is describing the remains of a clear-cut forest, a beached whale or a night in a petrel rookery, Nelson gives a notably sensitive portrait of island life. . His numerous encounter
He has been the W. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles on Biblical themes. Richard Nelson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Perkins School of Theology. . A. J. Professor Nelson is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America He is a noted scholar who has published commentaries on Kings, Deuteronomy, and Joshua. Previously he served a
This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.. Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest
A Passion for Place Jena Ball Here is a book that you may have to digest in small bits. Nelson's prose is dense, descriptive and charged with an intensity that occasionally makes you wonder how he can stand to inhabit his own skin. His description of the day he spent deer hunting for example - the physical strain of stalking, questioning the "rightenss" of his mental and spiritual state, worrying about . A Treasure This book is a treasure to be cherished, to be read and reread, to be pondered deeply. An easy facility with poetic language combined with insatiable curiousity and in depth knowledge of the natural world focuses on the kind of inter-relationship human creatures are called to have with "this fragile earth, our island home.". Richard's Island I have had this book for many years and have read it at least a half dozen times. Richard Nelson writes descriptively and lovingly of the wild place he calls the Island. He describes the beauty of surfing alone in numbingly cold water with sea lions cruising past and walking down the beach past a whale carcass that has been partially consumed by grizzly bears. I find his ma