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7335447Latitudeshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/latitudes-9781909954137/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6914357/image.jpg?v=638762847701530000178205MXNBarbican PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong><em>Latitudes</em> is a powerful, innovative book of creative non-fiction that tracks one writers life-long experience of reckoning with an epoch of heat, as well as posing urgent questions informed by years of writing about climate change and the natural world.</strong></p><p>What does it feel like to be alive in the Anthropocene?</p><p>An account of thirty years of living in and writing about some of the worlds last remaining wild places, <em>Latitudes</em> ranges across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada. It combines place-based writing, memoir and travelogue to offer a witness account of the living in and writing about nature, the wilderness and the environment in the Anthropocene.</p><p><em>Latitudes</em> also explores questions central to creative writing and artistic practice. Through her long experience of reading and teaching fiction and non-fiction, in particular nature writing, McNeil examines the question of the role of writers in an age of dramatic ecological loss. Only by mustering a radical attentiveness to the non-human world, the book argues, will we rediscover our balance, individually and as a civilisation, and gain perspective on the uncanniness of our present era.</p>...6972894Latitudes178205https://www.gandhi.com.mx/latitudes-9781909954137/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6914357/image.jpg?v=638762847701530000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259781909954137_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_<p><strong><em>Latitudes</em> is a powerful, innovative book of creative non-fiction that tracks one writers life-long experience of reckoning with an epoch of heat, as well as posing urgent questions informed by years of writing about climate change and the natural world.</strong></p><p>What does it feel like to be alive in the Anthropocene?</p><p>An account of thirty years of living in and writing about some of the worlds last remaining wild places, <em>Latitudes</em> ranges across the Antarctic, the Arctic, the savannahs and deserts of Africa, the Southern and Atlantic oceans and the boreal forests of Canada. It combines place-based writing, memoir and travelogue to offer a witness account of the living in and writing about nature, the wilderness and the environment in the Anthropocene.</p><p><em>Latitudes</em> also explores questions central to creative writing and artistic practice. Through her long experience of reading and teaching fiction and non-fiction, in particular nature writing, McNeil examines the question of the role of writers in an age of dramatic ecological loss. Only by mustering a radical attentiveness to the non-human world, the book argues, will we rediscover our balance, individually and as a civilisation, and gain perspective on the uncanniness of our present era.</p>...9781909954137_Barbican Presslibro_electonico_9781909954137_9781909954137Jean McNeilInglésMéxico2025-03-25T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram50-epub-b9a65f78-e7b0-4c2d-ad3a-c793e9b687b7.epub2025-03-25T00:00:00+00:00Barbican Press