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by David James Duncan

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In this remarkable collection of 22 essays, the award-winning author of "The River Why" braids his contemplative, activist, and rhapsodic voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet. Photos.

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In this passionate and wide-ranging collection, David James Duncan fuses memoir, science, comedy, and spiritual meditation into a urgent defense of wild rivers and native salmon--a book that insists our relationship to water is not merely ecological but deeply, irreducibly human

In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed author David James Duncan braids his contemplative, rhapsodic, and activist voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet. All twenty-two pieces in this collection swirl and eddy around his early-forged bond with the rivers of the Pacific Northwest and their endangered native salmon. With a bracing blend of story, science, and comedy, Duncan relates mystical, life-changing adventures; draws incisive portraits of the humans and wild creatures who shaped his destiny; rips the corporate greed and political folly that have brought whole ecosystems to ruin; and meditates on the spiritual and practical necessity of acknowledging our dependence on water in its primal state.

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"This book is the "Desert Solitaire of water."--Jim Harrison

"Original, skillful, and funny as hell."--Ian Frazier

""My Story as told by Water "is the real McCoy, vivid and important, full of urgent news about living on earth."--Thomas McGuane

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  • Title My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from
  • Author David James Duncan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Trade Pape
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint LLC, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-08-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781578050833 / 1578050839
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.12 x 0.78 in (23.06 x 15.54 x 1.98 cm)
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00051578
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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David James Duncan is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and is a National Book Award finalist for My Story as Told by Water. Best known for his two best-selling novels, The River Why and The Brothers K--both received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award. The Brothers K was a New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award from the American Library Association.
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