Latitudes (e-book) (used book) | Jean McNeil | bookbook.eu

Description

What does it feel like to be alive in the
Anthropocene?

An account of thirty years of living in and writing
about some of the world's last remaining wild places, Latitudes ranges
across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the
Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada. It combines place-based
writing, memoir and travelogue to offer a witness account of the living in and
writing about nature, the wilderness and the environment in the Anthropocene.

Latitudes also explores questions central to creative writing
and artistic practice. Through her long experience of reading and teaching
fiction and non-fiction, in particular nature writing, McNeil examines the
question of the role of writers in an age of dramatic ecological loss. Only by
mustering a radical attentiveness to the non-human world, the book argues, will
we rediscover our balance, individually and as a civilisation, and gain
perspective on the uncanniness of our present era.
Latitudes is a powerful, innovative book of creative non-fiction
that tracks one writer's life-long experience of reckoning with an epoch of
heat, as well as posing urgent questions informed by years of writing about
climate change and the natural world.