Results for "Ekelund, Torbjorn"

From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times. As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is often hard to come by. And how do we appreciate nature without disruption? In this sensitively-writt... Read More about A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys Into Nature

In this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier--a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, and the joy of discovery. Six-year-old Hans Torske disappeared in Norway's Skrim mountains in 1894.... Read More about The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery

"What Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one's way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost."--The New York Times Book Review An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told ... Read More about In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature

From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times. As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is often hard to come by. And how do we appreciate nature without disruption? In this sensitively-writt... Read More about A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys Into Nature

"What Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one's way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost."--The New York Times Book Review An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told ... Read More about In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature