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“A collection of essays that’s a personal journey as much as a meditation on the purpose and relevance of national parks in the 21st century . . . Williams’s language has its own visceral beauty . . . The Hour of Land is one of the best nature books I’ve read in years, filled with seductive prose . . . It’s impossible to do Williams’s thought-provoking insights and evocative images justice in a short review. My only advice is to read the book. And then read it again, with pen in hand. And then visit a national park, because as Williams reminds us, they are ‘portals and thresholds of wonder,’ the ‘breathing spaces for a society that increasingly holds its breath.’” ―Andrea Wulf, The New York Times Book Review“The Hour of Land is about National Parks as battlegrounds. What it means to hold land in trust, who defines its best uses, the tangibility of park boundaries, and whether and how we will reconcile our history with our present and future, are all tested on these lands . . . It's a heady book. But it is an important one, too, because the chronically underfunded National Park Service―and more broadly, all our public lands―are confronting a staggering list of stressors right now . . . The Hour of Land is part of a conversation to kick off the next 100 years.” ―Outside Magazine“It would have been easy for Terry Tempest Williams to fall back on ‘the best idea we ever had’―an interpretation articulated by Wallace Stegner in 1983 and popularized by Ken Burns in 2009. Instead, Williams asks hard questions about the current relevance and original goodness of America’s parks. She offers a poetic revision to the Organic Act of 1916, which mandated the conservation of scenery and wildlife for the enjoyment of the public in such a manner as to leave them unimpaired. In her 400-page mission statement, Williams updates ‘enjoyment’ to spiritual renewal, specifies that ‘the public’ means more than white people, and insists that ‘unimpaired’ means what it says . . . a sincerely disobedient book.” ―Jared Farmer, Science“[A] necessary new book . . . Williams shows how national parks can be both symbols of and actual catalysts for the things that are best about America, offering a montage of grandeur that can not only make one tear up in gratitude and an embarrassing sort of patriotic pride but also demonstrate the real value of these ‘wholesome’ feelings to human emotional life, spurring one to engage differently with the world . . . Williams’ is only one voice in the polyphonic story of the American landscape. But it is an especially valuable one in addressing how land, even that which is nominally preserved in a state of Edenic purity, shifts with this country’s social history as much as it does through geology and time.” ― Jenny Hendrix, Slate“Whether contemplating the spiritual life she finds ‘inside the heart of the wild’ or marveling at the peaks and monuments that comprise ‘our best idea’ – the National Parks system – Williams movingly urges us to remember that ‘heaven is here.’” ―O Magazine“Readers who like their prose ardent and their politics leaning left will take particular pleasure in The Hour of Land . . . Williams is frequently a lyrical writer and an intrepid thinker . . . Reading her is better than buying a commemorative postage stamp ― she delivers us into a more thoughtful grove.” ―Karen R. Long, Newsday “A provocative, heartfelt collection of essays . . . As Tempest Williams turns her attention to 12 different parks, from Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska to Acadia National Park in Maine, she considers both the large-scale forces―economical, ecological, political―bearing upon these landscapes, and the smaller scope of her personal relationships with these individual parks . . . we are reminded that the parks are preserved only by the grace of people, and Tempest Williams insists, in the end, that ‘the history of our national parks and monuments is a history of subversion, shaped by individuals.’” ―Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pacific Standard Magazine“An impassioned call to preserve and protect our national park system, America’s network of natural splendor, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year . . . Repeatedly, [Williams] calls for us to listen to the land, to respect it, to behave more responsibly . . . [She] raises issues about movements to sell public lands, off-road vehicle damage and other ‘acts of greed,’ water use, toxic emissions from oil and gas development apparently causing increased infant mortality, and other problems. Williams awakens readers to present issues easily obscured by the National Park Service’s carefully cultivated, idyllic image . . . she hopes to shake us from our fondness for souvenir T-shirts.” ―Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times“Williams (When Women Were Birds, 2012), an ardent, often rhapsodic, always scrupulous witness to the living world and advocate for the protection of public lands, celebrates the centennial of the National Park Service in this enrapturing and encompassing chronicle of her deeply inquisitive, meditative, and dramatic sojourns in a dozen national parks. Guided by a finely calibrated moral compass and acute attunement to the spirit of the land . . . this is a uniquely evocative, illuminating, profound, poignant, beautiful, courageous, and clarion book about the true significance of our national parks.”―Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)“Williams (When Women Were Birds), a longtime environmental activist, adds a meditative element to memoir as she shares her abiding love for America’s open spaces . . . In passionate and insightful prose, Williams celebrates the beauty of the American landscape while reinforcing the necessity of responsible stewardship." ―Publishers Weekly “[Williams’s] writing is poetic, passionate and unexpected . . . By turns sad, despairing, and hopeful, even thrilled in the presence of natural beauty, The Hour of Land is emotive, intelligent and well-traveled. It is only right that Williams should celebrate the Park Service's centennial with such a remarkable collection of wisdom and scintillating lines." ―Julia Jenkins, Shelf Awareness"A broadly ambitious and deeply impassioned collection of essays . . . There are few nonfiction writers who can capture the essence of the American wilderness landscape as eloquently as Williams . . . her distinctive prose style is capable of conveying a deep spiritual dimension within the physical setting . . . An important, well-informed, and moving read for anyone interested in learning more about America’s national parks." ―Kirkus Reviews"Taking us through American national parks and monuments, their history, their present reality, the rocks and birds and trees of them, traveling through place, the memory of place, its history, somehow, whether through the spectrum of poetry or personal story, natural history, history, or science, The Hour of Land reveals the very bones and sinew of our land. A redheaded woodpecker, Theodore Roosevelt’s grief, Terry Tempest Williams’s straight-backed father, a horseback ride with her husband through the terrain of the Civil War--slowly, place by place, our country begins to emerge. The South’s Civil War outlook is linked to that of today’s Sagebrush Rebellion here in the West; a planned wall in Big Bend to the inevitable desecration of nature; fratricidal rage to the glorious indifference of the Arctic, righteous rage to the devastation of oil spills, of the earth; Alcatraz to injustice everywhere. The conflagration of Glacier National Park sets the pages on fire, and yet the monument to Cesar Chavez offers the possibility of change: the Hour of Land is at hand. Terry Tempest Williams has literally shown us our country, its physical body, the bones of its history, the urgent reality of our roles in its future. A manifesto that everyone must read and then act upon." --Betsy Burton, The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, Utah

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About the Author

Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of fifteen books,including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Familyand Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, andWhen Women Were Birds. Her work has been widelyanthologized around the world. She lives in CastleValley, Utah, with her husband, Brooke Williams.

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Product details

Hardcover: 416 pages

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books; First Edition edition (May 31, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0374280096

ISBN-13: 978-0374280093

Product Dimensions:

6.4 x 1.4 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.5 out of 5 stars

120 customer reviews

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#41,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

If you are interested in the fragility of our National Parks system this book is a must read. I've since read quite a few books by authors I respect regarding their opinions about the scarcity of protected land and Terry Tempest Williams is as sentimental and well researched as they come. I love her sentimentality and her, sometimes, mushy language. The establishment of these places were created for a reason and are most in danger due to the current administration. Williams takes on all politics across the divide and no one comes away smelling of roses. Williams is completely bias-she is always on the side of land and the life/lives the land supports- I love that about her. I have always thought the strength of our species is the capacity to love what cannot love us back. Williams understands this about humans- here is one of her many brilliant musings: "The legacy of the Wilderness Act is a legacy of care. It is an ac of loving beyond ourselves, beyond our species, beyond our own time. To honor wildlands and wild lives that we may never see, much less understand, is to acknowledge the world does not revolve around us. The Wilderness Act is an act of respect that protects the land and ourselves from our own annihilation." The passage sums the book up perfectly and is the soul of each and every essay. A wide range of topics are discussed in each essay from the BP oil spill and the people along the Bayou whom's stories we never heard, to certain fish, bird and mammal populations which are gravely in danger. Williams also spills some memoir in here as well which is welcome to truly understanding the compassion behind her observations. "The Hour of Land" should be required school reading.

What begins as a personal memoir of love, land and family gradually transforms into a call to arms in the battle against climate change and the status quo responsible for it. This is a masterful work that will touch you deeply and perhaps even inspire you to take action. TTW has never written better than she does in this work, she has never been more open and passionate. I really can't describe how profoundly I have been moved by this book.

Terry Tempest Williams is an environmentalist, author, and poet who tours a number of National Parks and shares her deep spiritual experiences there, her love of nature, her outrage at the destruction of our treasures, and even the history we need to understand. Her writing often is poetic and stirring. Occasionally this format loses the reader, but is never dull. One comes away with a deeper appreciation of these American treasures.

A worthy subject taken on by a sincere environmentalist, but spoiled by self indulgence. Williams has quite a following, and it is clear she has a talent for engaging the eye in Nature. For example, I loved her walk into a canyon in Big Bend when her husband walked naked and she reported on insects. I also liked her report on the monument of presidents in South Dakota, seeing it through her disillusioned father’s eyes. But in whole, the mixture of family relationships and environmentalism was too mysterious and fragmentary to be satisfying.

More of a memoir than a travel guide, The Hour of Land, I’m willing to bet, is unlike any of the many books that are currently being published to coincide with National Parks Centennial. Terry Tempest Williams has written about 12 National Parks and Monuments in layers: surface descriptions through the eyes of someone who has spent much of her life watching, wandering, and wondering; and then all that is beneath the surface including the political maneuvering and legislation that created them; the dark energy that threatens them. But also their magic and mystery and their role as a source of imagination and possibility. We realize that the deeper we look into these places—which may be as close as what we, in America, have to call “Sacred Lands—the better we know ourselves. The post-modern black and white photos (Sebastio Salgado, Sally Mann, Robert Adams, Emmet Gowin among them) tell their own story and their selection and positioning within the book become clues to a magic riddle for which each reader is sure to find his or her own unique solution. This thrilling book, may be her best yet.

B-O-R-I-N-G!!!!!!!!!!! Unless you spend your time prancing barefoot through daisy fields with flowers in your hair and space between your ears, save your money! Awful!! I did recycle my copy though.

William's reminisces of her adventures in a number of parks/monuments as well as her own and other's poetic descriptions and expressions of awe make for pleasurable reading. These musings are accompanied with the history of parks, especially the controversies surrounding their establishment. Her advocacy for the preservation of wild and historic places is evident and includes the current day controversy surrounding, for example, Bears Ears.

She writes like a poet - thoroughly enjoying her writing and insights on the land, family & history. Highly recommend this book to anyone interested in touring the nation's parks, and a wonderfully well-written book for anyone appreciative of prose and insightful musings.

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