My Story as told by Water: Confessions Druidic Rants Reflections Bird-watchings Fish-stalkings Visions Songs and Prayers Refracting Light from Living Rivers in the Age of the Industrial Dark
Author: David James Duncan
Desc: In this remarkable collection of essays David James Duncan award-winning author of "The River Why "braids his contemplative activist and rhapsodic voices together into a potently distinctive whole speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet. The twenty-two essays in this collection swirl and eddy around the author's early-forged bond with the rivers of the Pacific Northwest and their endangered native salmon. With a bracing blend of story logic science and humor Duncan relates mystical life-changing fishing adventures; draws incisive portraits of the humans and wild creatures who shaped his destiny; attacks the corporate greed and political folly that have brought whole ecosystems to ruin; and meditates on the spiritual and practical necessity of acknowledging our dependence on water in its primal state.