My Story as Told by Water
Subtitle: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: July 17, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781578050499
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Novelists, American; Intellectual life; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature; Northwest, Pacific; Nature/Ecology; Natural history; Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Nature / Essays; Duncan, David James; Wilderness areas; 20th century; Biography; Homes and haunts
Description: "In his own words, David James Duncan was "struck by a boyhood suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out. I'd heard at church that the kingdom of heaven is within us and thought, Yeah, sure.

But the first time I walked up a trout stream, fly rod in hand, I didn't feel I was 'outside' at all: I was traveling further and further in." An estimated three thousand river walks later comes My Story as Told by Water, in which Duncan braids his contemplative, activist, and rhapsodic voices together into an irresistibly distinctive whole, speaking with a power and urgency that will recharge our national appreciation of the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet.".

"Here is a writer revealing captivating speculations on being born lost, on the discovery of water, on wading as pilgrimage, coho as interior compass, and industrial creeks as blues tunes. Here are rivers perceived as prayer wheels, dying birds as prophets, salmon as life-givers, brown trout as role models, wilderness as our true home, wonder as true ownership, and justice as biologically and spiritually inescapable."--BOOK JACKET.