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A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise: 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World

Warning: This is not your parents’ nature writing! A distinctly contemporary take on the genre, A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise features original essays by twenty gifted writers, all thirty and under, whose strong and diverse voices redefine nature writing for the twenty-first century.

Editor Bonnie Tsui’s cast of accomplished contributors wrestle with integrating nature into their lives while putting down roots — often in urban environments. Included here are the New Yorker’s Andrea Walker on learning to hunt with her father; noted fishing author and painter James Prosek on the mythology and mystery of eels; writer Hugh Ryan on being taught how to pitch a tent by a six-foot drag queen at a Radical Faeries camp in Tennessee; poet Cecily Parks on reconciling her adventuress self with her fear of lightning; and African-American journalist Alex Kellogg on rethinking his ideas about race and identity on a visit to Kenya and Eritrea.

Brimming with insight and humor, A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise rewards us with new perspectives on personal identity in relation to nature, and on the impact of landscape and place on our lives.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 312
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781578051274
  • Genres
  • essays, travel, nature, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2007