Coves of departure : field notes from the Sea of Cortez / John Seibert Farnsworth.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xii, 193 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501730184
- 1501730185
- Farnsworth, John Seibert -- Travel -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
- Farnsworth, John Seibert -- Travel -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
- Natural history -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
- Natural history -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Description and travel
- California, Gulf of (Mexico) -- Description and travel
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Main Library | NonFiction | 508.7223 F236 | Available | 33111009292737 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In a book that has been called "a love song to nature," the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. While much of the book narrates his experience as a writing professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago each year during spring break, the book also reflects on experiences with a condor restoration project in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, and an altogether different teaching experience based in a field station on Bahia de los Angeles. While the author's intent is to evoke Baja ecologies in fresh ways, the reader comes to realize that he's also describing how education can become a transformational experience. A retired scuba instructor who turned to academics and went on to receive his college's highest teaching award, Dr. Farnsworth believes that education should be a lifelong adventure, and that explorations of the natural world should be animated by reverence and delight.
Includes bibliographical references.
Headwinds -- Vernal equinox -- Night life -- Transect in the Sierra de la Laguna -- To the island -- First interlude : August in Bahia de los Angeles -- Same beach, different expedition -- Sea sparkle -- Red sky at morning -- Second interlude : June in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir -- Essay : the cove of departure -- Death & poetry in the sand dunes -- Tailwind.
"The author documents ten years of explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez as a professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago. He also tells of his experiences with a condor restoration project in the Sierra San Pedro Martir based in a field station on Bahia de los Angeles"-- Provided by publisher.