Jan DeBlieu, a recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for Wind, contributes frequently to Audubon, the New York Times Magazine, and Orion. The Cape Hatteras Coastkeeper for the North Carolina Coastal Federation, she is also the author of Hatteras Journal and Meant to be Wild, chosen by the Library Journal as one of 1992's best science books of the year.
"As in her previous book, Wind, DeBlieu uses forces of nature to
illuminate the human condition. Here she brackets the harrowing
story of her husband's severe depression with the appearances of
the comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp; in between these astronomical
events, she reflects on the chaos and order of the cosmos by
weaving a well-paced history of stargazing."
"Books about black holes and galaxies abound. Much rarer are books
that show how the cosmos touches our innermost lives. By
interweaving her family's struggles with exceptionally lucid
ruminations on stargazing and astrophysics, Jan DeBlieu makes plain
what many stargazers no doubt feel but dare not say--that looking
skyward at night satisfies a deep need to escape the trials of the
day."
"DeBlieu, an award-winning natural-history writer, skillfully folds
the scientific information she has had to master--neurological as
well as astronomical--into a memoir of toughing out hard times with
help from the heavens."
"DeBlieu's... work brings [her] routinely to the edge of wonder--to
space and infinity, in DeBlieu's central metaphor--and therefore to
great depths of emotion."
"A poetic compendium of wind phenomenon and a hymn of praise for
these towering movements of the air."
"As in her previous book, Wind, DeBlieu uses forces of nature to
illuminate the human condition. Here she brackets the harrowing
story of her husband's severe depression with the appearances of
the comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp; in between these astronomical
events, she reflects on the chaos and order of the cosmos by
weaving a well-paced history of stargazing."
"Books about black holes and galaxies abound. Much rarer are books
that show how the cosmos touches our innermost lives. By
interweaving her family's struggles with exceptionally lucid
ruminations on stargazing and astrophysics, Jan DeBlieu makes plain
what many stargazers no doubt feel but dare not say--that looking
skyward at night satisfies a deep need to escape the trials of the
day."
"DeBlieu, an award-winning natural-history writer, skillfully folds
the scientific information she has had to master--neurological as
well as astronomical--into a memoir of toughing out hard times with
help from the heavens."
"DeBlieu's... work brings [her] routinely to the edge of wonder--to
space and infinity, in DeBlieu's central metaphor--and therefore to
great depths of emotion."
"A poetic compendium of wind phenomenon and a hymn of praise for
these towering movements of the air."
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