In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses - Hardcover

Hanson, Chad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1506482198 ISBN 13: 9781506482194

Verlag: Broadleaf Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A stirring invitation to awe--and to what it means to be wild.

Out on the edges of our frantic twenty-first-century nation, bands of wild horses stand nestled together, calmly nuzzling each other to maintain the bonds of family. Prairie hills unfurl around them, and the sky provides their shelter. In the same states where factories churn, offices bustle, and cell phones demand our attention, remote places of solace and beauty rest, mostly undiscovered, in a parallel world that lies closer than we often imagine.

Through the lens of the wild mustang, social scientist and poet Chad Hanson gives us new ways to see and meaningfully engage our world as we enter new considerations about how we understand animals and our landscapes, our history, and ourselves. What is a wild animal? How do feelings of reverence reconnect us with nature? What can we learn from our wisdom traditions? And in the end, what would it look like if we managed public land with the common good in mind? With wisdom gathered from the histories of the American West, geography, philosophy, theology, and sociology, we meet awe anew. In the tradition of the great literary and nature writers, In a Land of Awe serves as a plea for what we stand to lose if we don't find the courage to protect the planet's most beautiful, and vulnerable, others.

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Chad Hanson serves as a member of the faculty in Sociology and Religion at Casper College. He is co-founder of the Wyoming Mustang Institute, which works through research and advocacy to ensure healthy and stable wild horse populations on public land. Hanson is also the author of several books, including Trout Streams of the Heart and This Human Shape. He divides his time between Casper, Wyoming, and the Red Feather Lakes region of Colorado.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Broadleaf Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1506482198
• ISBN 13: 9781506482194
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 219
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