{"product_id":"quiet-desperation-savage-delight-sheltering-with-thoreau-in-the-age-of-crisis-9781948814485","title":"Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A powerful and timely book from one of the most provocative and engaging voices in contemporary environmental writing.\" \u003cbr\u003e--MICHAEL P. BRANCH, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Cuss in Western\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons--of learning our own backyard, re-wilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience--hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID GESSNER\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLeave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling \u003ci\u003eAll the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West\u003c\/i\u003e. Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and founder and editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e, Gessner lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, the novelist Nina de Gramont, and their daughter, Hadley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Torrey House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948814485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 377","brand":"David Gessner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39956793524405,"sku":"9781948814485","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c2d4b9ff-c7b8-47c2-b834-bc414f9604ba.jpg?v=1620222422","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/quiet-desperation-savage-delight-sheltering-with-thoreau-in-the-age-of-crisis-9781948814485","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}