Nature's Housekeeper
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| Author | Michael Gurnow |
|---|---|
| Working title | Nature's Housekeeper: The Life and Times of a Trail Maintenance Worker |
| Illustrator | Paris Chrisopoulos |
| Cover artist | Phil Velikan |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Hiking, Conservation, Nature Writing, Trail of Tears State Park |
| Genre | Nature writing |
| Published | 2015, Blue River Press |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 224 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1935628484 Search this book on  . |
| Preceded by | The Edward Snowden Affair: Exposing the Politics and Media Behind the NSA Scandal |
Nature's Housekeeper is an upcoming 2015 non-fiction book by American author Michael Gurnow. It will be released May 1, 2015 by Blue River Press.
Illustrated by Paris Chrisopoulos, it contains an introduction by The Aldo Leopold Foundation and Lawton Grinter, author of I Hike, contributed the afterword.[1]
Synopsis[edit]
Nature's Housekeeper is a fictional autobiography and comedy of errors about the author being inspired after reading Henry David Thoreau's Walden to resign his position as a college professor and take a minimum-wage job as a trail maintenance worker at Trail of Tears State Park.
While making several tongue-in-cheek references to Greek mythology and American literature, Gurnow explores the philosophy of conservation, examines consumer culture and white-collar assumptions about manual labor, and provides the reader with an overview of many of the classics of nature writing, including Walden, the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard.
Table of Contents[edit]
- Introduction by The Aldo Leopold Foundation: "Why Leopold, Why Gurnow?"
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Unsuspecting Taxi Driver
- Chapter 2: Fraggle Fern
- Chapter 3: Going Up to the Country (Largely Against My Will)
- Chapter 4: Blame Hank
- Chapter 5: Stalking the Elusive Tree Snorer
- Chapter 6: Of Vultures and Splinters
- Chapter 7: When It Rains, It Pours (and Pours and Pours)
- Chapter 8: Paradise Regained
- Afterword by Lawton Grinter: "Why Hike?"
References[edit]
- ↑ "New and Upcoming Titles". Blue River Press. 2014-09-29.
Bibliography[edit]
- 2015 Nature's Housekeeper. Blue River Press (Div. of Cardinal Publishers Group), ISBN: 1-935628488 (10). ISBN: 978-1935628484 (13).
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