{"product_id":"thinking-continental-writing-the-planet-one-place-at-a-time-paperback","title":"Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Naramore Maher\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTom Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDrucilla Wall\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about \"thinking continental\"--connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes--to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. \u003cem\u003eThinking Continental \u003c\/em\u003ebraids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eom Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e is a coeditor, with Susan Maher, of \u003ci\u003eArtifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2012). \u003cb\u003eSusan Naramore Maher\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2014). \u003cb\u003eDrucilla Wall\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eThe Geese at the Gates\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eO. Alan Weltzien\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eExceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes \u003c\/i\u003e(Nebraska, 2016). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 378\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451448541362,"sku":"9780803299580","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/95a5da6b9cb30da102247f4b0f9c3e69.webp?v=1778794972","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/thinking-continental-writing-the-planet-one-place-at-a-time-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}