The Inner Coast, Donovan Hohn
The Inner Coast, Donovan Hohn
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The Inner Coast
Essays

Author: Donovan Hohn

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2020


Synopsis

Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the bestselling author of Moby-Duck.

Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects ten of his best, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, which feature his physical, historical, and emotional journeys through the American landscape.

By turns meditative and comic, adventurous and metaphysical, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools, the dance between ecology and engineering, the lost art of ice canoeing, and Americans' complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau. The Inner Coast marks the return of one of our finest young writers and a stylish exploration of what Guy Davenport called "the geography of the imagination."

About Donovan Hohn

Donovan Hohn, a former editor at GQ and Harper's Magazine, is the author of The Inner Coast and Moby-Duck and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, a Knight-Wallace Fellowship, and a Whiting Writer's Award. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Keith

Here's a book that I hope is able to rise out of the darkness that is the pandemic. It is definitely worth getting to your bookshop (even if it can only be on-line) and snagging a copy. I reviewed it for Michigan Quarterly Review: In 2012, Donovan Hohn published Moby-Duck and gave his book a marvelou......more

Goodreads review by Gulya

loved this......more

Goodreads review by Morgan

This was genre-defining: essays that are memoirs, literary criticisms, investigations, excavations, and eulogies. And yet... it was one story. An understanding (and almost a yearning?) for the author's view of the world.......more

Goodreads review by Karen

Some essays were okay, some were great, a few not my cup of tea. I enjoy books like this because of the variety. Just because you don't enjoy one part doesn't mean the next one won't Wow you.......more