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The Solace of Open Spaces audiobook
- By: Gretel Ehrlich
- Narrator: Gretel Ehrlich
- Category: Essays, Nature
- Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The Solace of Open Spaces Audiobook Summary
A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced
“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard
Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life.
Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves.
Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning” (Newsday), Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us.
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The Solace of Open Spaces Full Details
| Narrator | Gretel Ehrlich |
| Length | 4 hours 43 minutes |
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593402658 |
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The publisher of the The Solace of Open Spaces is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: outdoors, gifts for nature lovers, travel writing, nature lover gifts, nature books, nature, travel gifts, travel books, travel, solace, natural history, environment, animals, americana, travelogue, biographies, wilderness, wildlife, animal books, travel book, earth, history, america, usa, bucket list, grand canyon, travel diary, 50 states, environmental science, travels, animal lover gifts, travel memoirs, environmental books, gifts for rv owners, travel books usa, traveling books, us travel, gifts for animal lovers, travelogues, Nature, Essays, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, Travel, United States, West, Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY) The BISAC Subject Code is Essays, Nature
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The publisher of the The Solace of Open Spaces is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593402658.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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