Julian Hoffman is the author of The Small Heart of Things, which won the 2012 AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. He was also the winner of the Terrain.org Nonfiction Prize and has written for EarthLines, Kyoto Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Briar Cliff Review, Flyway, Redwood Coast Review, Silk Road Review and Southern Humanities Review, amongst others. He lives in north-western Greece.
Brilliantly twisty . . . Levy explores the relationships between power, perception and self-delusion * New York Times * if you read one book this year, make it Julian Hoffman's Irreplaceable * Shiny New Books * A powerful hymn to humanity engaging with nature...[a] remarkable, illuminating book. * Irish Times * A powerful, tender, inspiring clarion call to save the places that matter, right across the globe. * Nature's Home * Lyrical and hugely intelligent * New Statesman * A passionate and lyrical work of reportage and advocacy. * Guardian * If the pen really is mightier than the sword, then Julian Hoffman is a knight errant, looking for trouble, a champion of underdogs. * Caught by the River * An impassioned account of the importance of Nature in our lives, and a timely reminder of the need to take action in the face of unprecendented destruction of the natural world. * The Countryman * The power of Hoffman's book lies in the reporting: he doesn't deal - as many environmentalists do - in generalities and alarmist warnings about what lies ahead for the world, but in the specifics of the here and now. * Evening Standard *