Leavetakings: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781602234246)

Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not only to map new places but also to map the most familiar ones, like home? Departures and returns in these essays derive in large part from the narrator's personal experiences of cross-continental travel by pickup truck and by airplane, human-powered expedition-style travel by kayak, regional travel by ferry, and her daily or local travel on foot. But the movement of coming and going at the heart of this collection exceeds the physical, for these essays are also intent on understanding spiritual and psychological pulses of proximity and distance in human connections to other people, their stories, and their homes.

Author: Corinna Cook
ISBN-10: 1602234248
ISBN-13: 9781602234246
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2020
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d