David Abram's first book, "The Spell of the Sensuous," hailed as "revolutionary" by the "Los Angeles Times," as "daring" and "truly original" by "Science," has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram's writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth.

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""A wild book in every sense of the word, full of stories that will leave you trembling, but even fuller of ideas that will send you out into the world with new eyes." --Bill McKibben, author of "Eaarth
""This book is like a prehistoric cave. If you have the nerve to enter it and you get used to the dark, you'll discover things about storytelling which are startling, urgent and deeply true. Things each of us once knew, but forgot when we were born into the 19th and 20th centuries. Extraordinary rediscoveries!" --John Berger, author of "Ways of Seeing and Why Look at Animals
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"""I cannot imagine another book that so gently and so persuasively alters how we look at ourselves." --Richard Louv, author of "The Nature Principle"
"One of the most compelling and important ecology books in decades." --Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace International
"A truly alchemical book. . . . Those of us who still hope for a revolutionary change in our thinking to