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UNSOLACED

Gretel Ehrlich

Along the Way to All That Is

From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis.
Gretel Ehrlich's essay collection SOLACE OF OPEN SPACES has been a perennial seller since its original publication nearly 30 years ago.

UNSOLACED revisits the intentions and aspirations of her early work and returns to places she has sought as an anchor for her spirit, Hoping to catch a glimpse of herself along the way. Ehrlich recalls split-end strands of friendships spliced to new loves, houses built and lived in, conversations that shifted the firmament. When traveling through Greenland and Japan, to the North Pole and the Channel Islands, while herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world searched for home.

Ehrlich's voice is a unique amalgam of poetry and science, her attention held fast by the vegetation and animals she cares for, the lyric exaltation of insight that gives both her and her readers an intimation of a greater whole.

GRETEL EHRLICH is the author of Facing the Wave, The Future of Ice, Heart Mountain, The Solace of Open Spaces, This Cold Heaven, and Unsolsced, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Ehrlich studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She divides her time between Montana and Hawaii.
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Published 2021-01-05 by Pantheon

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Gripping... Ehrlich chronicles with enthralling precision the to-the-brink physicality of hard work and daring expeditions and the meditative states nature summons... Writing with fire and ice of beauty, risk, and devastation, Ehrlich shares wonder, wisdom, candor, and concern to soul-ringing effect

Global climate change means that landscapes we thought were forever are impermanent, while the pandemic makes clear that control over our human environment is equally illusory. And yet, out of this instability, the kinetoscope-like structure of Ehrlich's memoir offers views of a rich and full life... Poetic... [She] creates visceral responses in the reader... Ehrlich reminds us of what is at stake as we confront the climate crisis.

A nuanced meditation on the sacred spaces disappearing before our eyes... Unsolaced is unpredictably timely, a compelling adventure story and an inward and outward journey that may leave the reader with more questions than answers in these uncertain times, the most provoking being, "Where do we go to find solace now?"

Gretel Ehrlich's account of her journeys in far flung parts of the natural world have the emotional intensity and scrupulous detail of someone looking for home. Compelled to share her hopes for success, the reader will discover a thrilling, informative, hard won book.

Ehrlich's memories, rendered in rich, lyrical language, make for a moving ode to a changing planet.

An intimate, engaging memoir... In lush, evocative prose, Ehrlich details some breathtakingly perilous journeys... A vigorous plea for responsible environmental stewardship and a treat for all fans of nature writing.