David Abram s first book, The Spell of the Sensuoushas become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we ve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram s writing subverts this distance, drawing readers...