{"product_id":"the-hopes-of-snakes-isbn-9780807085653","title":"The Hopes of Snakes","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Hopes of Snakes\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Couturier celebrates the stories of forgotten, overlooked animals who have adapted nobly to city and suburban life in the Northeast. With sharp perception and deep humanity, she has found what is so remarkable in the nature we see most often and illuminated it like no one before her. \u003ci\u003eThe Hopes of Snakes\u003c\/i\u003e is an eloquent and powerful debut by one of the best new writers exploring nature in the humanized landscape.Couturier's essays shine with her candor, her perception, and her affection for the creatures of our world. Whether the subject is a snake or a falcon or a crow named Edgar, these essays will both enlighten and give much reading pleasure.--Mary Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Couturier enters the terrain staked out by Annie Dillard in \u003ci\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/i\u003e and Terry Tempest Williams in \u003ci\u003eRefuge\u003c\/i\u003e. In these moving essays, Couturier does not so much domesticate the wilderness as reveal the wildness within the domestic.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays combine nature writing, philosophy, theology and feminism . . . the writing is lyrical, even when Couturier explores the ecology of New York's subways.\"--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautiful, intelligent, and literary . . . this book is a wondrous pleasure, yet it has the ability to shift the way you look at the natural world. \u003ci\u003eThe Hopes of Snakes\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the bookshelf next to Edward Abbey's \u003ci\u003eThe Serpents of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e and Annie Dillard's \u003ci\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/i\u003e and, like those, is a book to savor, to know, to love and to share.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003eLisa Couturier's essays have appeared in literary anthologies, including the well-regarded \u003ci\u003eAmerican Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e series and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic's Heart of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. She has worked as an environmental journalist and a magazine editor. She writes and teaches in the Washington, DC, area, where she lives with her family along the Potomac River.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302069588197,"sku":"NP9780807085653","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807085653.jpg?v=1767739824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-hopes-of-snakes-isbn-9780807085653","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}