An Inside Passage
About this book
Although finding a way to feel at home in the world is ultimately the life's work of us all, rarely has the search ranged as far or found as precise and moving an expression as it does in An Inside Passage. Winner of the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Kurt Caswell's narrative chronicleshis travels in the rugged mountain forests of Japan's Shiretoko National Park, on a vision quest in Death Valley, and to the sacred waters of the Ganges River. Whether contemplating a great blue heron as it rests riverside at the onset of a storm, reflecting on a beloved student's untimely death, walking through the Navajo reservation, or receiving the blessing of a Hindu priest, Caswell unerringly finds the moment of truth. His journey also takes us across the landscape of his marriage, both its initial sweetness and its eventual failure. The ensuing inner dislocation echoes a larger estrangement that makesmore poignantCaswell's quest to find a place he can call home.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Untitled
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- California Rental
- Five Country Walks
- Fawn
- The Way to Coss Creek
- Letter to a Young Girl at Summer’s End
- A Horse Builds a Woman in a Storm (A Dream)
- A Matter for Heron
- The Rescue
- Banaue Tercet
- Instructions at the Headwaters
- The Best Thing about Marriage Is Divorce
- Wild Man at Iouzan
- Mountains Belong to People Who Love Them
- Hunger at the Mountain
- An Inside Passage
