The River (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781770412552)

A breathtaking mix of observation, prose, natural history, and art We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions? This is what celebrated writer Helen Humphreys sets out to do in this beautiful, groundbreaking examination of place. For more than a decade Humphreys has owned a small waterside property on a section of the Napanee River in Ontario. In the watchful way of writers, she has studied her little piece of the river through the seasons and the years, cataloguing its ebb and flows, the plants and creatures that live in and round it, the signs of human usage at its banks and on its bottom. The result is The River, a gorgeous and moving meditation that uses fiction, non-fiction, natural history, archival maps and images, and full-colour original photographs to get at the truth. In doing this, Humphreys has created a work of startling originality that is sure to become a new Canadian classic.

Author: Helen Humphreys
ISBN-10: 1770412557
ISBN-13: 9781770412552
Publisher: ECW Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 6.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 10/01/2015 pg. 39
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2016