{"product_id":"in-the-company-of-light-isbn-9780807085394","title":"In the Company of Light","description":"One of the most daring of contemporary writers in the genre. --\u003ci\u003eNorton Anthology of Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Hay's] books about Cape Cod belong in the company of Thoreau, Donald Culross Peattie, Henry Beston, and Rachel Carson.\" --Robert Taylor, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hay's new book, published in his 83rd year, is autumnal in spirit and in substance. . . . The essence of this enterprise is a kind of prayer, eloquent and deeply felt.\" --Richard Todd, \u003ci\u003eCivilization\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Hay] is, to my mind, without question this country's greatest living nature writer. . . . He writes out of such a profoundly poetic impulse that he cannot help but produce prose of a high literary order.\" --Robert Finch, \u003ci\u003eThe Cape Codder\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hay loses himself in details, describing the minute play of light through grasses, the reflection of a water bug on the rocks of a stream bottom, the fungi on fallen trees that begin to glow with an eerie luminescence. . . . [He] is not only the observer of what most of us don't see, but of what we may never get a chance to see.\" --David Cline, \u003ci\u003eHartford Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Company of Light\u003c\/i\u003e shares with considerable humility the well-honed insights of a man rich in the wisdom of age and observation of nature.\"--Nancy Grape, \u003ci\u003eMaine Sunday Telegram\u003c\/i\u003eJohn Hay is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Beach\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the John Burroughs Prize), \u003ci\u003eThe Run\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other books. He lives in Brewster, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and in Bremen, Maine.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301918429413,"sku":"NP9780807085394","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807085394.jpg?v=1767729956","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/in-the-company-of-light-isbn-9780807085394","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}