THE WINDWARD SHORE: A WINTER ON THE GREAT LAKES
Book ID/图书代码： 03890013B61640
English Summary/英文概要： "Our country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore---his newest effort---is a beautifully written and elegiac memoir of outdoor discovery. Highly recommended!"
---Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
"Come for a journey; stay for an awakening. Jerry Dennis loves the Great Lakes, the swell of every wave, the curve of every rock. He wants you to love them too before our collective trashing of them wipes out all traces of their original character. Through his eyes, you will treasure the hidden secrets that reveal themselves only to those who linger and long. Elegant and sad at the same time, The Windward Shore is a love song for the Great Lakes and a gentle call to action to save them."
---Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
"In prose as clear as the lines in a Dürer etching, Jerry Dennis maps his home ground, which ranges outward from the back door of his farmhouse to encompass the region of vast inland seas at the heart of our continent. Along the way, inspired by the company of water in all its guises---ice, snow, frost, clouds, rain, shore-lapping waves---he meditates on the ancient questions about mind and matter, time and attention, wildness and wonder. As in the best American nature writing---a tradition that Dennis knows well---here the place and the explorer come together in brilliant conversation."
---Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Conservationist Manifesto
If you have been enchanted by Jerry Dennis’s earlier work on sailing the Great Lakes, canoeing, angling, and the natural wonders of water and sky—or you have not yet been lucky enough to enjoy his engaging prose—you will want to immerse yourself in his powerful and insightful new book on winter in Great Lakes country.
Grounded by a knee injury, Dennis learns to live at a slower pace while staying in houses ranging from a log cabin on Lake Superior’s Keweenaw Peninsula to a $20 million mansion on the northern shore of Lake Michigan. While walking on beaches and exploring nearby woods and villages, he muses on the nature of time, weather, waves, agates, books, words for snow and ice, our complex relationship with nature, and much more.
From the introduction: “I wanted to present a true picture of a complex region, part of my continuing project to learn at least one place on earth reasonably well, and trusted that it would appear gradually and accumulatively—and not as a conventional portrait, but as a mosaic that included the sounds and scents and textures of the place and some of the plants, animals, and its inhabitants. Bolstered by the notion that a book is a journey that author and reader walk together, I would search for promising trails and follow them as far as my reconstructed knee would allow.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者杰瑞•丹尼斯因膝盖受伤在密西根湖北岸的豪宅疗养，其间，他漫步于密歇根湖的沿岸、探访附近的树林村庄,思考大自然的时间、天气、波浪、玛瑙珍宝、书籍和描绘冰雪的文字,人类与自然错综复杂的关系等等。作者通过富有洞察力的视角呈现了五大湖区的真实画卷，这是一段读者与作者同行的旅程。(pêche）
Awards/获奖情况：“拥有杰瑞•丹尼斯是我们国家的荣幸。丹尼斯既是灵魂诗人又是环保人士，他关注于密歇根荒野，与奥尔多•利奥波德和西格德奥尔森志趣相投。他的最新力作——《迎风的湖岸》文笔优美，是户外探索的挽歌回忆录。强烈推荐!”——《荒野战士:西奥多•罗斯福和美国十字军》作者Douglas Brinkley
“犹如杜勒作品字里行间般的清新散文，杰瑞•丹尼斯描绘了他的国度,从农舍的后门一直延伸到大陆的核心地区——宽广的内海。一路上的灵感来自于水的陪伴，还有水的其他形式——冰、雪、霜、云、雨和拍打湖岸的波浪，他冥想着精神和物质，时间和专注，野性和奇迹的古老命题。丹尼斯非常了解美国自然文学佳作的传统，五大湖是探险家们聚集和交流的地方。”——《一位环保人士的宣言》作者Scott Russell Sanders
“参加旅行要保持清醒。杰瑞•丹尼斯热爱五大湖，热爱每一朵波浪的曲线，热爱每一块岩石的棱角，他希望我们在集体毁灭了所有原始的痕迹之前也能够爱上他们，借助他的视角，你会把这些被埋藏的秘密视若珍宝，只有那些留恋他的人才能发现这些秘密。《迎风的湖岸》是一首对五大湖的恋歌，也是拯救五大湖行动的号召。”——《蓝色契约：全球水危机和即将到来的争夺水权的战斗》作者Maude Barlowe
About the Author/作者介绍： 杰瑞•丹尼斯的文学作品大都是关于自然、科学和户外娱乐。他的文章在《纽约时报》,《国家地理》,史密森尼,奥杜邦,格雷斯体育杂志,和许多其他出版物已经赢得了无数的奖项并被收录在册。他的书获得广泛的赞誉，并被译成德语,日语,中文,葡萄牙语和捷克语。1999年,密歇根图书馆协会授予丹尼斯年度密歇根作家。他和他的妻子盖尔住在密歇根州特拉弗斯城，离密西根湖的岸边不远。Jerry Dennis (www.jerrydennis.net) is an acclaimed nature, science, and outdoor writer whose essays have appeared in such publications as Audubon, Smithsonian, Orion, National Geographic Traveler, and the New York Times. His books have appeared on national bestseller lists, have been translated into five languages, and are taught in many universities and high schools. Among Dennis’s awards are the Michigan Author of the Year Award, the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, Michigan State University’s Great Lakes Culture Award, and three Best Book of the Year awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America.
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