The Walk

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ISBN: 9781595340597

William deBuys

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Trinity University Press,U.S.
01 December 2009

The natural world, country life & pets

In The Walk, William deBuys writes about personal loss and the power of the landscape to nurture the recovery of hope. The book consists of three interrelated essays that move from a period of strife in the author's life to a kind of limbo and eventually to a place of peace.

The setting is deBuys' small farm in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Each morning, he takes the same walk through the woods, arriving, as he describes in the first essay, at a clarity that comes from looking at the same vantage point for years.

The middle essay, ""Geranium,"" takes its name from a mare deBuys had to put down, and whose remains become one with the forest.

In the final essay, deBuys reflects on drought, the loss of a friend, and the resurgence of land and hope.

Contemplative, compassionate, and quietly humorous, The Walk is nature writing at its finest.

By: William deBuys
Imprint: Trinity University Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 212g
ISBN: 9781595340597
ISBN 10: 1595340599
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William deBuys is a writer and conservationist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of The Walk and River of Traps, coauthored with Alex Harris, which was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a 1990 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. DeBuys's other books are Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California, which received a Western States Book Award, Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell, and A Great Aridness. His shorter work has appeared in many publications, including Story, Orion, and the New York Times Book Review.

Reviews for The Walk

“DeBuys’ pensive and quiet book offers a way out of despair and toward hope.” — San Francisco Chronicle ""William deBuys’ extended prose-poetic, meditative ramble through the fields and woods of his northern New Mexico home is a rare work of such quiet, lyrical beauty that it needs to be savored.”— Albuquerque Journal