{"product_id":"field-notes-field-notes-the-grace-note-of-the-canyon-wren-9781400075126","title":"Field Notes: Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez--the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eArctic Dreams \u003c\/i\u003eand one of our most admired writers--evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400075126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.47d","brand":"Barry Lopez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44033763082421,"sku":"9781400075126","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7f22618d-670a-4000-8334-f0431e514865.jpg?v=1713885717","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/field-notes-field-notes-the-grace-note-of-the-canyon-wren-9781400075126","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}