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Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World
Holdfast At Home in the Natural World
Author: Kathleen Dean Moore
Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts?the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales?she examines our connections to our own bedrock.?When people lock themselves in the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780870717086
ISBN-10: 0870717081
Publication Date: 5/1/2013
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is another essay-type books about the natural world that I enjoy reading. Holdfast is the structure at the end of seaweed strands that attach to rocks with a grip that even ocean gales cannot rend. The author seeks to understand what affixes her firmly to family and place. A very good read.


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