Description: Oasis This Time : Living and Dying With Water in the West, Paperback by Lawton, Rebecca, ISBN 193722693X, ISBN-13 9781937226930, Brand New, Free shipping in the US NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER
"The problem of dominion that has always complicated humanitys relationship with wild places is at the center of Rebecca Lawtons essay collection…her expertise is apparent, as is her enthusiasm."
—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases. Fluvial geologist and former Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton follows species both human and wild to their watery roots—in warming deserts, near rising Pacific tides, on endangered, tapped-out rivers, and in growing urban ecosystems. Lawton thoroughly and eloquently explores human attitudes toward water in the West, from Twentynine Palms, California, to Sitka, Alaska. A lifelong immersion in all things water forms the authors deep thinking about living with this critical compound and sometimes dying in it, on it, with too much of it, or for lack of it. The Oasis This Time, the inaugural Waterston Desert Writing Prize winner, is a call for us to evolve toward a sustainable and even spiritual connection to water.
REBECCA LAWTON grew up exploring rivers and deserts throughout the American West. Her writing on water, climate, and wild and human nature has been honored with a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, the Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers, the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, a WILLA for original softcover fiction, Pushcart Prize nominations in prose and poetry, and residencies at Hedgebrook, PLAYA, and The Island Institute. She lives with guitarist Paul Christopulos in Summer Lake, Oregon, where she directs PLAYAs residency program for writers, artists, and scientists.
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Book Title: Oasis this Time : Living and Dying with Water in the West
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: TOR REY House Press, LLC
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Environmental Conservation & Protection, General
Genre: Nature
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Rebecca Lawton
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
