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Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the best-selling author of Moby-Duck.Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times) . Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects ten of his best, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, which feature his physical, historical, and emotional journeys through the American landscape.By turns meditative and comic, adventurous and metaphysical, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools, the dance between ecology and engineering, the lost art of ice canoeing, and Americans' complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau.
About the Author
Donovan Hohn's work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Outside, Agni, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, among other publications. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA. Moby-Duck, a national bestseller, was runner up for both the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Nonfiction Award and the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, as well as a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. At the time he began work on Moby-Duck, Hohn was teaching high school English. Before teaching high school English, he'd earned his living writing and editing for magazines. Since finishing Moby-Duck he has been, in the following order, senior editor of Harper's Magazine, features editor of GQ, and a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. After moving to Michigan, he and his family decided to stay. Hohn now teaches creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and is working on a second book.
