{"product_id":"the-story-of-my-heart-9781937226411","title":"The Story of My Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A first-rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eTHE UTAH REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1883, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e explores the existence of a \"soul-life\" as British nature writer Richard Jefferies experienced while wandering in England. With an introduction by Terry Tempest Williams and essays by Brooke Williams alongside Jefferies' original work, these two beloved writers and environmentalists contemplate dilemmas of modernity, the intrinsic need for wildness, and what it means to be human in the 21st century. Scott Slovic, editor of \u003ci\u003eISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e, provides the afterword.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN RICHARD JEFFERIES\u003c\/b\u003e (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was a British novelist and essayist who helped pioneer the field of modern nature writing. Jefferies described the English countryside with an intimate vividness and expansive passion that inspired both his contemporaries and later writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books including \u003ci\u003eErosion: Essays of Undoing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRefuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhen Women Were Birds\u003c\/i\u003e. Recipient of John Simon Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowships in creative nonfiction, she is the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College. Her work has been anthologized and translated world-wide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBROOKE WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e has spent thirty years advocating for wildness, most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and as the Executive Director of the Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and a Biology degree from the University of Utah. He has written four books including \u003ci\u003eHalflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness\u003c\/i\u003e, and dozens of articles. He is involved in The Great West Institute, a think tank exploring expansion and innovation in the conservation movement and is currently working on a book about ground-truthing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrooke and Terry have been married since 1975. They live with their dogs in Jackson, Wyoming, and Castle Valley, Utah. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCOTT SLOVIC\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of literature and environment and chair of the Department of English at the University of Idaho. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 has edited \u003ci\u003eISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e. The author of more than 200 articles in the field of ecocriticism, he has also written, edited, and co-edited twenty-one books, including \u003ci\u003eSeeking Awareness in American Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing Away to Think\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Torrey House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50545253581074,"sku":"9781937226411","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a8b8f4a-4316-4833-a1c9-0a1314240f2e.jpg?v=1731543881","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-story-of-my-heart-9781937226411","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}