Of Woods and Waters
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From the moment Daniel Boone first gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and ...beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below, generations of Kentuckians have developed rich and enduring relationships with the land that surrounds them. Of Woods & Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader is filled with loving tributes, written across the Commonwealths two centuries, offered in celebration of Kentuckys widely varied environmental wonders that nurture both life and art. Ron Ellis, an outdoors enthusiast and noted writer, has gathered art, fiction, personal essays and poetry from many of Kentuckys best-known authors for this comprehensive collection. The anthology begins with famed illustrator John James Audubons eloquent account of extracting catfish from the Ohio River and progresses through over fifty contributions by both established and emerging writers. Covering two hundred years of hunting, fishing, camping, cooking, hiking, and canoeing in Kentuckys woods and waters, these classic and original works show how writers have, as celebrated Kentucky historian Thomas D. Clark suggests, fallen under the spell of the land. Of Woods & Waters does not merely recount fond memories. Many authors presented in this collection echo the sentiments of the award-winning novelist and essayist Barbara Kingsolver, who writes, Much of what I know about life, and almost everything I believe about the way I want to live, was formed in those woods adjacent to her birthplace in Nicholas County, Kentucky. The works collected in Of Woods & Waters serve to honor and defend what many recognize as a sadly declining way of life, one born out of genuine reverence for the beauty and bounty of nature. The contributions of Wendell Berry, Janice Holt Giles, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jesse Stuart, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, James Baker Hall, Silas House, and other esteemed authors examine the delicate balances that must be struck between humanity and nature, between progress and sustaina
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