{"product_id":"quiet-desperation-savage-delight-sheltering-with-thoreau-in-the-age-of-crisis-9781948814485","title":"Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis","description":"\"A fast-paced but powerful, moving treasure trove of life lessons Gessner divined by spending a year making the best he could of a global tragedy.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons--of learning our own backyard, re-wilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience--hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID GESSNER\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eleven books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including \u003ci\u003eLeave it As it Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling \u003ci\u003eAll the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West\u003c\/i\u003e and the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Tarball Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2003 Gessner taught environmental writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, and he now serves as chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e. His prizes include a Pushcart Prize, the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay, the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment's award for Best Book of Creative Writing, and the Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment. In 2017 he hosted the National Geographic Explorer show, \"The Call of the Wild.\" Gessner lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, the novelist Nina de Gramont, and their daughter, Hadley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Torrey House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50443754963218,"sku":"9781948814485","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_012c271c-24af-4a9c-95fc-9c8f50393940.jpg?v=1729675521","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quiet-desperation-savage-delight-sheltering-with-thoreau-in-the-age-of-crisis-9781948814485","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}