EAST COUNTRY: ALMANAC TALES OF VALLEY / SHORE (CORNELL UNIV)

This is a work of creative nonfiction in which the nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single narrative. Pretty follows the seasons through seventy-four tales set in a variety of landscapes from valley to salty shore. He convinces us that we should all develop long attachments to the local, observing that the land can change us for the better.