Book
Believers : making a life at the end of the world / Lisa Wells.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374110253 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 336 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Across the desert our bread is blooming! -- On the rise and fall of a teenage idealist -- Promised lands -- Notes on a living trail -- The problem of other people -- To live together -- In the garden -- Restoring paradise. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Human ecology. |
| Genre: | Essays. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 814.6 Wells | 31681010244390 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An award-winning poet and essayist describes the dedicated people on margins of society who are trying to undo the damage humans have done to the planet through âwatershed discipleship,â inner-city farming and botanists fighting invasive species. 15,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"Poet and essayist Lisa Wells takes us on a pilgrimage to the margins, where trailblazers and outliers imagine new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change"-- - McMillan Palgrave
"An essential document of our time." âCharles DâAmbrosio, author of Loitering
In search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change
We find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we live?
Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes, but she could not find practical answers. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts. Believers tracks through the lives of these people who are dedicated to repairing the earth and seemingly undaunted by the task ahead.
Wells meets an itinerant gardener and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists in rewilding the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing âwatershed discipleshipâ in New Mexico and another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farmingâguns into ploughshares. She watches the worldâs greatest tracker teach others how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that acknowledge the fires will come again.
Through empathic, critical portraits, Wells shows that these trailblazers are not so far beyond the rest of us. They have had the same realization, have accepted that we are living through a global catastrophe, but are trying to answer the next question: How do you make a life at the end of the world? Through this miraculous commingling of acceptance and activism, this focus on seeing clearly and moving forward, Wells is able to take the devastating news facing us all, every day, and inject a possibility of real hope. Believers demands transformation. It will change how you think about your own actions, about how you can still make an impact, and about how we might yet reckon with our inheritance.
