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In The Paradise Notebooks, Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact.
Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, Nevle and Nightingale contemplate the natural phenomena found in the Sierra Nevada. From granite to aspen, to fire, to a rare, endemic species of butterfly, these essay pairs explore the natural history and mystical wonder of each element with a balanced and captivating touch. As they weave in vignettes from their ninety-mile backpacking trip across the range, Nevle and Nightingale powerfully reconceive the Sierra Nevada as both earthly matter and transcendental offering, letting us into a reality in which nature holds just as much spiritual importance as it does physical.
In a time of rapid environmental degradation, The Paradise Notebooks offers a way forward—a whole-minded, learned, loving attention to place that rekindles our joyful relationship with the living world.
Contents
Introduction
Setting Out
Part I: Stone, Water, Fire
Granite
Obsidian
Roof Pendants
Brokenness
Clouds
Snow
Glacier
River
Forest
Fire
Part II: Range of Life
Bighorn
Aspen
Paintbrush
Whitebark Pine and Clark's Nutcracker
Pileated Woodpecker
Belding's Ground Squirrel
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog
Western Tanager
Sierra Nevada Parnassian
Wolf Lichen
Epilogue
