{"product_id":"10-01-22-bond-bruce-invention-of-the-wilderness","title":"Bond, Bruce: Invention of the Wilderness","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLouisiana State University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: October 12th, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInvention of the Wilderness, \u003c\/em\u003eBruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual, psychological, and ecological realm--a territory that, depending on our tolerances and affections, calls out for order, exploitation, expansion, or preservation. Although to talk of \"inventing\" the wilderness seems paradoxical, the book seeks to reclaim the etymological root of \"invention\" as a \"venturing in.\" To invent a wilderness is to go inward by way of attentive engagement in the natural world, to affirm and liberate imaginative expression as no mere mirror of nature, but a force of it. At times meditative and melancholic, though also vibrant and full of life, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInvention of the Wilderness \u003c\/em\u003eproposes an embodied and reflective way of being in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40282820706327,"sku":"9780807177969","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail-1_16eb582c-991e-4c15-937a-d284835eb494.gif?v=1662251126","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/10-01-22-bond-bruce-invention-of-the-wilderness","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}