William deBuys
Set, like ,River of Traps,, on a small farm in a New Mexican mountain valley that the author has tended since 1977, ,The Walk, explores the illuminating ways in which personal and natural history interweave in a familiar environment. A kind of love story about a landscape, the book consists of three interrelated essays â€” â€œThe Walk,â€ â€œGeranium,â€ and â€œParadiso.â€ These pieces move from a period of strife and conflict in the authorâ€™s life to a place of limbo, to a place of peace â€” or, as the author says â€” from â€œinferno to purgatorio, and finally to paradiso.â€ DeBuys takes the same walk each morning, through the woods near his farm, and arrives at a clarity that comes from observing life carefully from the same vantage point for years. DeBuys, one of the countryâ€™s premier nature writers, is revered for his compassionate, clarifying prose. ,The Walk, only reinforces that reputation.
Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir,Writing,Essays,Biography
The Walk