I've been getting stuck in to Barry Lopez's new book 'Horizon', which is a chunky tome, and an important one.It has been attracting a lot of attention from reviewers and related journals, including Robert MacFarlane.
Herald Scotland has a good review of the book giving a flavour for its contents.
Even the act of looking up, as a nature-watcher will, and saying “shelduck” or “juncus” or “cumulonimbus” is to impose a human fixity on what should remain a fluid and dynamic field of unnameable possibilities. As soon as the bird is identified, sexed, dated and added to the list, the scene freezes into documentation.
The Atlantic has an excellent review as well.
The Guardian has Robert MacFarlane talking about the book in characteristic style.
From the book:
“One can never, even by paying the strictest attention at multiple levels, entirely comprehend a single place, no matter how many times one might travel there. This is not only because the place itself is constantly changing but because the deep nature of every place is not transparency. It's obscurity."
David Griesing has published an essay.
NPR review is worth reading, as well as this other NPR piece on the book.
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