Finding Beauty in a Broken World
- ISBN-10
- 0375725199
- ISBN-13
- 9780375725197
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 420
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Terry Tempest Williams
Description
The naturalist author of Refuge and An Unspoken Hunger reflects on what it means to be human, the interconnection between the natural and human worlds, and how they combine to produce both tumult and peace, ugliness and beauty.
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