Feb 13 - Powell's
This was my first visit to Powell's Books, and I was staggered. I made a point of visiting twice before buying anything, but honestly, I wound up wandering around with a full basket, putting one thing back and picking up two more -- hardly a good way of staying within budget, but what do you expect from a bookstore with roughly a MILLION volumes? So, here's the big haul, from the first purchase run, some new, some used, and some discounted new:
- David Landis Barnhill, ed., At Home on the Earth: Becoming Native to Our Place: A Multicultural Anthology ($11.95)
- Rick Bass, The Book of Yaak ($8.95)
- Daniel Botkin, Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark ($5)
- Lawrence Buell, The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination ($19.95)
- Grace L. Dillon, ed, Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest ($7.98)
- William Kittredge, Owning It All ($5.95)
- David Peterson del Mar, Oregon's Promise: An Interpretive History ($6.95)
- Laurie Ricou, The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest ($8.95)
- James P. Ronda, Lewis and Clark among the Indians ($11.95)
- Richard J. Schneider, ed., Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing ($12.50)
Comments
I've been meaning to get to The Book of Yaak for a while now. Over the last couple of weeks I worked through most of Scott Slovic's Getting Away to Think, and he talked really sensibly there about Bass's project in this book being to balance between artist and activist. The last few weeks have been occupied with working on a paper about West Coast environmental memoirs, so the ideas were much on my mind.
But my goodness, not much compares to Scott's essay "Be Prepared for the Worst." Have you read it? I was staggered by it, genuinely moved.
Theresa Kishkan
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And Bass, too, if jo(e) is reading these comments....