Book description
An extraordinary account of searching for the wildness left in our world - spanning continents and geological eras, skies and oceans, animals and birds, and even the planets and stars.
With dizzying acuity and insight Roberts paints a portrait of a life and its landscapes, creating precious connections with wild…
Why read it?
1 author picked Two Lights as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
“For the beauty that remains in spite of everything.” (p 205.)
Two Lights is James Roberts’ illustrated offering of thanksgiving for both the transience and permanence of the natural world; for the grace of a glimpse of a wolf on a lonely highway; for dusk falling over a river; for the unchanging stars. Written at a time of great personal uncertainty and possible loss, Roberts writes about finding meaning in his relationship with wild things and places.
Two Lights speaks to me; I share Roberts’ experience with finding solace and hope in the natural world; in finding joy even…
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