Temple Stream
A Rural Odyssey
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:7th Dec '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom Roorbach ("The Professor") and his family might always be considered outsiders, this book chronicles one man's determined effort—occasionally with hilarious results—to follow his stream to its elusive source. Acclaimed essayist and award-winning fiction writer Bill Roorbach uses his singular literary gifts to inspire us to laugh, love, and experience the wonder of living side by side with the natural world.
There is poetry in Bill Roorbach's prose...his lyricism touched lightly with irony. * Boston Globe *
Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical description and wry humor, his writing draws you out of your chair and into a world of streams and meadows and trees and bugs and beavers. And it makes you want to stay there. * The Seattle Times *
There are other autobiographical books about Maine, but Roorbach's writing is so compelling, his eye for the human condition so keen, that this is in a class of its own. * Library Journal, Starred Review *
A celebration of life...deft and evocative, making small adventures loom large. * Kirkus *
With a voice as pure and true as the stream itself, Roorbach limns a lyrical yet precise portrait of the life teeming along one deceptively simple yet richly essential part of the natural world. * Booklist *
You'll be homesick for a place you've never visited. * Playboy *
While genuine in his appreciation of Nature, Roorbach is the antithesis of the smug and self-absorbed Naturalist...Temple Stream is a moving book: thoughtful, precise, about much more than flora. * The Believer *
- Winner of Washington Book Publishers 2015 Book Design & Effectiveness Competition: Illustrated Cover (Second Place).
ISBN: 9781608933938
Dimensions: 210mm x 142mm x 24mm
Weight: 386g
300 pages