Description
Hardback. Price includes shipping within the US. Signed, dated, and embossed by Janisse Ray.
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Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans is a collection of essays. The book explores the wild Earth.
Deeply drawn to nature and to the spirit world, Janisse repeatedly immerses herself in wildness.
- She goes to see overwintering butterflies in Mexico and finds ruin.
- She gets within 15 feet of grazing elk in Montana wilderness.
- She contemplates friendship with nature writer Rick Bass.
- She counts birds in Belize.
- She explores the wilds of coastal Alaska with nature writer Richard Nelson.
- She rescues a child from deep in Okefenokee Swamp.
- And so much more.
Similar to explorers like Bartram and Sacagawea, Ray documents experiences that are increasingly rare in an age of virtual, urban life.
From Alaska to Central America, she
- exults in the beauty and strangeness of nature
- celebrates known and unknown magnificence
- mourns the loss of abundance
- weaves in her own fascinating life
- questions what it means to travel as a woman
- speculates on the impacts of ecotourism
- inspires substantive change
Janisse’s stories capture heart-pounding amazement, romance, and wisdom along the way.
The book won the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence, judged by Pam Houston.
The hardback was published by Trinity University Press, October 2021. The paperback was released August 2022.
