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Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season

Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season


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About the Book

In the tradition of Blue Highways and Silent Spring, Chasing Spring follows nature's season of renewal even as it shows how the delicate mechanisms of spring are increasingly endangered by climate change. Seeking to revive his body and soul following heart surgery, acclaimed nature writer Bruce Stutz set out on a three-month journey through the unfolding of an American spring. Driving across the country in a twenty-year-old Chevy sedan, Stutz shows readers that spring is not so much a progression as an arousal; each added minute of the lengthening days and lingering sun brings yet another transformation in the greening landscape as well as in the human spirit. Beginning with the season's southernmost stirrings along the Gulf of Mexico, Stutz sees the first blooms and partakes in the season's festivals -- celebrations with ancient origins that still speak to our wonder at nature's annual rebirth. He follows the migrations of birds northward, the return of life to the forests, and the quickening of snowmelt in the Rockies. He moves across the southern desert, encountering the explosion of cacti and wildflowers and the violence of tornadoes on the drought-stricken Great Plains. He then travels north through the national parks of the West, finally celebrating his journey's end by basking at the solstice amid the beauty of the Alaskan Arctic's twenty-four hours of daylight. Along the way, he accompanies scientists into the field to study the season's changes and meets farmers, Arctic natives, and even migrant mushroom pickers whose livelihoods depend on the coming of spring. In each location, as he observes the sensitive interplay of light and warmth that draws animals, plants, water, and even the soil itself into the biological ballet that makes for the profound stirring we call spring, he also finds that climate change now threatens the basic pro-cesses of nature. A moving and thought-provoking record of the year' s most invigorating season, Chasing Spring is a timely reminder that as trees bud and flowers bloom, the human spirit reawakens as well. Anyone who has ever marveled at spring' s wondrous transformations

About the Author :
Bruce Stutz is the author of Natural Lives, Modern Times. The former editor in chief of Natural History, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Review :
"Bruce Stutz is the best road-trip companion: bold, witty, thoughtful, and an achingly beautiful storyteller. Chasing Spring is essential reading for anyone concerned with the fate of Earth." -- Alan Burdick, author of Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion "A worthy successor to Edwin Way Teale (and to the Steinbeck of Travels with Charley), Bruce Stutz proves himself a capable tour guide of the vernal continent. And a worthy thinker, too, about the issues -- especially global warming -- that earlier travel writers never had to engage. This book is a lovely witness to the present and an argument for the future." -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape "Chasing Spring is a sweet, gentle renewal, a reminder of what's important in life, and that life is important. And Bruce Stutz is a generous guide and companion as he takes us from blooming ocotillo in the deserts of Arizona to the bowl of a pristine glacier in the wilds of Alaska. This is an intelligent book, but wise as well, full of information, full of ideas, full of fascinating people. It's wide ranging, deep diving, never preaching, a work of rare art, and it's built with wit, tenderness, knowledge, and most of all, abundant heart." --Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream, The Smallest Color, and Big Bend.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780743262484
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Scribner
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: An American Journey Through a Changing Season
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0743262484
  • Publisher Date: 23 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 330 gr


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