{"product_id":"clear-creek-toward-a-natural-philosophy-9781952271908","title":"Clear Creek: Toward a Natural Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world's cycles, revelations, and redemptions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A critic once wrote that Rebecca West's \u003ci\u003eBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e was about two things: Yugoslavia and everything else. Something similar might be said about \u003ci\u003eClear Creek\u003c\/i\u003e. In this boundary-defying work, Erik Reece spends a year beside the stream in his rural Kentucky homeplace, tracking the movements of the seasons, the animals, and the thoughts passing through his mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClear Creek\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of vignettes that calls us out of our frenzied, digitized world to a slower, more contemplative way of being. Reece's subjects range from solitude and solidarity to the intricacies of forest communities, and from the genius of songwriter Tom T. Hall to reforestation projects on abandoned strip mines. A work of close observation and carefully grounded insights, \u003ci\u003eClear Creek\u003c\/i\u003e articulates a nature-based philosophy for pondering humanity's current plight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErik Reece is the author of five books of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eUtopia Drive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLost Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, which won Columbia University's John B. Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Kentucky.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727226933522,"sku":"9781952271908","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_945f44ce-219c-4a9c-aef2-8d6cb13ce19d.jpg?v=1734897289","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/clear-creek-toward-a-natural-philosophy-9781952271908","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}