Sightlines
Subtitle: The View of a Valley through the Voice of Depression (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Middlebury College Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781584650836
Subjects: The Environment; Mental health; Mental Depression; Biography / Autobiography; Vermont; Psychology; USA; Osborne, Terry; Depression; Regional Subjects - New England; Science / Ecology; Depressed persons; Emotions; Biography
First sentence: North of our house on Cobble Hill the Connecticut River valley stretches away toward Canada, lined by two states-Vermont to the west, New Hampshire the east-and by two ridges, one on either side of the river.
Description: "For twelve years, writer Terry Osborne devoted himself to an intense exploration of the physical environment near his home in the Connecticut River Valley. The more he walked the land, the more deeply he came to know its hills, wetlands, and swamps. But his growing intimacy with the area inspired something unexpected.

The valley, formed by colliding and dividing continents, scoured by massive glaciers, and cut by rivers and streams, began to reveal and resonate with Osborne's internal landscape, long shaped from within by an unyielding depressive voice.".

"Osborne gradually discovers that the present - both physical and mental - is built on layers laid down in both the remote and recent past, layers that interpenetrate and circulate continually, transforming fragments into woven wholes. In Sightlines, he lyrically and movingly recounts how his external journey initiated and gave form and substance to a profound and therapeutic personal quest."--BOOK JACKET.