Notes on the Landscape of Home

"If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some of the boundaries between you and it dissolve," writes Susan Hand Shetterly in her introduction to these heartfelt essays about learning to appreciate the view from wherever you're standing. In an age of restlessness, Shetterly explores what it means to stay in one place by writing about the things she finds in the natural world around her home on the ragged edge of the continent.