"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
– Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
In This Kit You’ll Find:
- 3 copies of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the watermen of vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift
- 3 copies of In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld
- 3 copies of Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
- 3 copies of The Outermost House: a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
- 1 copy of discussion questions for In Hovering Flight (you may keep)
- Book sign-up sheet to keep track of books (you may keep)
- 1 copy of the Nature.com/scientificreports article, Climate Change and the Evolution and Fate of the Tangier Islands of Chesapeake Bay, USA
Themes for Discussion:
- Chesapeake Requiem: Chesapeake Bay, Tangier Island, fishers, island life, crabbing, sea level, global warming, climate change,
- In Hovering Flight: Mothers & daughters, birds, terminal illness, environmentalists, nature, family relationships
- Turtle Island: Creation myths, North America, nature, environmentalism
- The Outermost House: Cape Cod, birds, naturalists, natural history
About the Book:
Chesapeake Requiem: A 200-year history of Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island crabbing community. The book explains how rapidly rising sea levels will render the island uninhabitable within a few years. (Novelist)
In Hovering Flight: The novel follows the life of bird-lover Addie as her outspoken environmentalism causes friction in her relationship with her daughter and husband and leads to a troublesome dying wish for a highly illegal burial. (Novelist)
Turtle Island: A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry about the planet, our ancient myths and roots and environmental awareness.
The Outermost House: This memoir chronicles the four seasons on a Cape Cod beach and includes an interview with esteemed nature writer, Henry Beston's biographer, Daniel G. Payne. (Novelist)
Further Your Discussion:
- Listen & Explore: Learn more about In Hovering Flight author, Joyce Hinnedfeld, find further resources about birding, birds and bird art, and just for fun, peruse this playlist of songs curated to accompany your reading of In Hovering Flight:
- Watch & Read: This video from PBS News Hour highlights the issues discussed in Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift. As well, find this article in your folder kit:
- Read & Explore: This website dedicated to the writer-naturalist, Henry Beston, author of The Outermost House, and his wife Elizabeth Cotsworth.
- Listen: Learn more about the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/naturalist, Gary Snyder and listen to live readings of a selection of poems from his Turtle Island book: