| Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark Contributor(s): Hurd, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820331538 ISBN-13: 9780820331539 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces -- with their stalactites and blind cave fish and ancient galleries of white flowstone -- come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual territory of caves as powerfully as Kathleen Norris portrayed the Dakotas. Entering the Stone provides an awe-inducing tour through a fragile and beautiful subterranean world. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: 796.5 |
| LCCN: 2007044844 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.73" W x 8.28" (0.51 lbs) 184 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual territory of caves as powerfully as Kathleen Norris portrayed the Dakotas. Entering the Stone provides an awe-inducing tour through a fragile and beautiful subterranean world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hurd, Barbara: - BARBARA HURD is the author of Stirring the Mud, Entering the Stone, Walking the Wrack Line, and a collection of poetry, The Singer's Temple. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, the Yale Review, the Georgia Review, Orion, and Audubon. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award, five PushcartPrizes, five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. |