Jan Deblieu: 2 books
Year of the Comets
A Journey from Sadness to the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The author of Wind, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing, shares a memoir of depression and the cosmos.
On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as two thousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began to wonder....
Wind
How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The wind has sculpted Earth from the beginning of time, but it has also shaped humans—our histories, religions and cultures, the way we build our dwellings, and how we think and feel. In this poetic, acclaimed work, Jan DeBlieu takes the tempests of her home, the North Carolina Outer Banks, as a...