{"product_id":"the-story-of-my-heart-hardcover","title":"The Story of My Heart - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Jefferies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTerry Tempest Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrooke Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Williamses anchor Jefferies' profound inquiry to our churning world and illuminate their own passionate quests for truth and understanding. \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBOOKLIST\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a soul-life while wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. Brooke and Terry, like John Fowles, Henry Miller, and Rachel Carson before, were inspired by the prescient words of this visionary writer, who describes ineffable feelings of being at one with nature. In an introduction and essays set alongside Jefferies' writing, the Williams share their personal pilgrimage to Wiltshire to understand this man of cosmic consciousness and how their exploration of Jefferies deepened their own relationship while illuminating dilemmas of modernity, the intrinsic need for wildness, and what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN RICHARD JEFFERIES\u003c\/b\u003e (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was a British novelist and essayist who helped pioneer the field of modern nature writing. Jefferies described the English countryside with an intimate vividness and expansive passion that inspired both his contemporaries and later writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books including \u003ci\u003eErosion: Essays of Undoing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRefuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhen Women Were Birds\u003c\/i\u003e. Recipient of John Simon Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowships in creative nonfiction, she is the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College. Her work has been anthologized and translated world-wide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBROOKE WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e has spent thirty years advocating for wildness, most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and as the Executive Director of the Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and a Biology degree from the University of Utah. He has written four books including \u003ci\u003eHalflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness\u003c\/i\u003e, and dozens of articles. He is involved in The Great West Institute, a think tank exploring expansion and innovation in the conservation movement and is currently working on a book about ground-truthing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrooke and Terry have been married since 1975. They live with their dogs in Jackson, Wyoming, and Castle Valley, Utah.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN RICHARD JEFFERIES\u003c\/b\u003e (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was a British novelist and essayist who helped pioneer the field of modern nature writing. Jefferies described the English countryside with an intimate vividness and expansive passion that inspired both his contemporaries and later writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books including \u003ci\u003eErosion: Essays of Undoing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRefuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhen Women Were Birds\u003c\/i\u003e. Recipient of John Simon Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowships in creative nonfiction, she is the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College. Her work has been anthologized and translated world-wide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBROOKE WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e has spent thirty years advocating for wildness, most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and as the Executive Director of the Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and a Biology degree from the University of Utah. He has written four books including \u003ci\u003eHalflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness\u003c\/i\u003e, and dozens of articles. He is involved in The Great West Institute, a think tank exploring expansion and innovation in the conservation movement and is currently working on a book about ground-truthing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrooke and Terry have been married since 1975. They live with their dogs in Jackson, Wyoming, and Castle Valley, Utah. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCOTT SLOVIC\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of literature and environment and chair of the Department of English at the University of Idaho. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 has edited \u003ci\u003eISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e. The author of more than 200 articles in the field of ecocriticism, he has also written, edited, and co-edited twenty-one books, including \u003ci\u003eSeeking Awareness in American Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing Away to Think\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 6.9 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769900957984,"sku":"9781937226411","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5d06a8e5311775faa0b1c27ab5079209.webp?v=1780359329","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-story-of-my-heart-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}