Akiko Busch: 3 books
Nine Ways to Cross a River
Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From Thoreau to Edward Abbey to Annie Dillard, American writers have looked at nature and described the sublime and transcendent. Now comes Akiko Busch, who finds multitudes of meaning in the practice of swimming across rivers. The notion that rivers divide us is old and venerated, but they also limn...
The Incidental Steward
Reflections on Citizen Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York’s Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted other encounters with the natural world—local ecological monitoring projects, community-organized cleanup efforts, and data-driven citizen science research....
How to Disappear
Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning...