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OverviewDavid 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 beautifully written and compelling story of their year together. But more than just a book about friendship, it's a lyrical testament to the importance of living a life connected to the wild. John Hay lived deeply on one piece of land on Cape Cod for sixty years. As a consequence, he has much to tell Gessner, and us, about the importance of cultivating deep connections to the land we live on. His words speak to our forgotten need for space and for reaching beyond ourselves to the world outside. In our increasingly frenetic world, a life like John Hay's-rooted, connected to the natural world, wild-provides a radical counterpoint to our screen-filled existence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David GessnerPublisher: Beacon Press Imprint: Beacon Press Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9780807005989ISBN 10: 0807005983 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 May 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. 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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 This book is an enormous gift, an act of preservation as important as any chunk of land purchased by The Nature Conservancy. John Hay's stature cannot be overestimated, and David Gessner has done him great justice.--Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home The Prophet of Dry Hill is a surprising book in many ways, tender, elegant, intelligent, always frank and sometimes very funny. This is a work of generous love, the story of a prickly friendship, but also and preeminently a short and fiery course on how to live in an increasingly crowded and confusing world. --Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream Reading The Prophet of Dry Hill is like taking a long, soul-satisfying walk with two remarkable naturalists, John Hay and David Gessner. Through Hay's wise words and Gessner's keen observations, we witness a gentle unfolding of a friendship seeded in a shared passion for the natural world and nurtured in the unpredictability of human connectedness. --Kate Whouley, author of Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved If Thoreau had wanted a disciple, he couldn't have had a better one than David Gessner. Following the great nature writer John Hay around his Cape Cod haunts, witnessing Hay's increasing dismay at the development crushing his beloved Cape, Gessner has made Hay's cri de coeur his own. This beautiful book should inspire the reader to 'get down in nature, down in the water and the dirt, ' as Hay urges. I am sending my copy of this book to the wildlife-destroyer in the White House. -- Alice Furlaud, NPR reporter 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 This book is an enormous gift, an act of preservation as important as any chunk of land purchased by The Nature Conservancy. John Hay's stature cannot be overestimated, and David Gessner has done him great justice.--Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home The Prophet of Dry Hill is a surprising book in many ways, tender, elegant, intelligent, always frank and sometimes very funny. This is a work of generous love, the story of a prickly friendship, but also and preeminently a short and fiery course on how to live in an increasingly crowded and confusing world. --Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream Reading The Prophet of Dry Hill is like taking a long, soul-satisfying walk with two remarkable naturalists, John Hay and David Gessner. Through Hay's wise words and Gessner's keen observations, we witness a gentle unfolding of a friendship seeded in a shared passion for the natural world and nurtured in the unpredictability of human connectedness. --Kate Whouley, author of Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved If Thoreau had wanted a disciple, he couldn't have had a better one than David Gessner. Following the great nature writer John Hay around his Cape Cod haunts, witnessing Hay's increasing dismay at the development crushing his beloved Cape, Gessner has made Hay's cri de coeur his own. This beautiful book should inspire the reader to 'get down in nature, down in the water and the dirt, ' as Hay urges. I am sending my copy of this book to the wildlife-destroyer in the White House. -- Alice Furlaud, NPR reporter Author InformationDavid 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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