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The Nearsighted Naturalist
Seeking out wildflowers and whitewater, Ann Zwinger has called many places home. The Nearsighted Naturalist brings together work from more than two decades in her career as one of our most distinguished natural history writers. From the Indiana landscape of her youth to her Colorado mountain retreat, from Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon to New Zealand's Kapiti Island, Zwinger leads an ever-widening armchair tour of natural places both ordinary and astonishing. Whether anticipating the first day of spring or seeing the elegance of the subtle hues of a moth's papery wings, Zwinger's trademark eye for detail brings the landscape alive. Her travels trace her evolution from a home-centered wife and mother to a wandering adventurer, an evolution that has taught her to be at home in nature no matter where she is. Sprinkled with Zwinger's own charming pen-and-ink drawings, The Nearsighted Naturalist reminds us of the power of the very best nature writing. It is an invitation to wander, to travel to faraway places, to revisit your own backyard, to chase dragonflies, and to experience the healing power of a sea-smoothed pebble. With the author, readers will embark on a fascinating exploration into distant deserts of the mind and hillsides of the heart..
Price: $48.00
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Nearsighted Monkey
This endearing myopic monkey inhabits an everyday world, but one not without a supernatural charm; she is just as likely to appear at your doorway with a freshly baked pie as with her elephant-eared imaginary friend. Nearsighted Monkey collects a series of portraits in which the pleasant primate goes about her daily life—smoking while hogging the remote, making pancakes, waiting for the bus—alternately bundled up for her travels or lounging in slippers and a housecoat. She might drink all of your wine, or the last of the coffee, but all is forgiven upon her presentation of a perfect grilled cheese sandwich. Lynda Barry presents this remarkably familiar character in colorfully inked pages, sometimes painted upon typed science and arithmetic notes from the 1920s. Contrasted in this fashion, the monkey and her pursuits become much more substantial than the long-forgotten lesson plans they upstage. Similarly, in true Lynda Barry style, they serve as a reminder of the playfulness so key to genuine learning and to a satisfying daily routine. .
Price: $10.36
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Nearsighted Child
Deborah Elizabeth Smith, also-known-as Preemie was born, in a Catholic Hospital named Mother Mary's Hospital, to a drug addictive mother who succumbed to death the exact moment Preemie burst into the world. Preemie's mother embraced death's warmth; it had been searching for her for a long time. Her mother had lived a life filled with three life's terms of anguish, rejection, gult, and pain. At the very moment of Preemie's mother's death, Preemie felt the pinch of the darts. The devil had redirected his aim. Preemie became his imminent target. Physically and emotionally abused, Preemie dwelt in the darkness. Her world was bleak. No one seemed to notice or care. Preemie finds and loses love on her journey. But her ultimate task is yet to be conquered..
Price: $24.99
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