Treks for the Mind Book Club Meeting

January 07, 2013, 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm


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Next Meeting:  Monday, September 9th, 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Where:  BYLT Office, 12183 Auburn Rd, Grass Valley

COST:  FREE (Donation always appreciated)  


Our next book discussion in September will be on Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy.

 

 

Eating_Stone.jpgMeloy, adventurer and keen observer, has sharpened our   ecological perceptions in her previous books. Here in another masterful synthesis, she offers more uncommon insights into our relationship with the wild in a vivid study of desert bighorn sheep. These wondrously adapted animals live on the most arid and rugged of terrains. Hidden, mythologized, and coveted, once abundant, then nearly extinct, bighorns have staged a stupendous comeback in spite of dwindling habitats. After spending a year closely observing these ruminative and light-footed creatures in Utah, Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert, and the Sierra Nevada, and reading up on their biology and lore, Meloy animatedly describes supermodel-perfect rams, alert ewes, and lambs given to springing "straight up in the air like a piece of toast." Between witty, self-disclosing, and metaphor-spiked field notes, Meloy offers provocative reflections on restoration ecology and the "politics of wildlife" and muses over how the loss of animals and wilderness diminishes our imagination and sense of wonder. Sadly, this enlightening and invaluable book comes to us in the wake of Meloy's sudden death.  (From Booklist)

Please join us for lively discussion and interesting interactions.  Everyone welcome to share their insights and understandings.

 

What is Treks for the Mind? Treks for the Mind Book Club meets on the first Monday of the month, every other month (odd numbered months). The meeting locations will be announced prior to the meetings.

For more information or to sign up for Treks for the Mind, contact Melony Vance at melony@bylt.org or 530 272-5994 x 200.


Suggested Reading List: (3 years worth of reading and discussion!)

Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (May 2012)

The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder (July 2012)  

Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs (September 2012)

Wild Trees by Richard Preston (November 2012)

Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams (January 2013) 

Nature Noir by Jordan Fisher Smith (March 2013)

Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Cactus Eaters by Dan White

Wilderness Essays by John Muir

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

PCT Readers - Sierra Club

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson  (November 2013)

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass

Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner

Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Field Notes by Barry Lopez  (May 2013)

Tree by David Suzuki

Eating Stone by Ellen Meloy  (September 2013)

Nature Noir by Jordan Fisher Smith (March 2013)