No Other Way
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0096SQR9A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 556 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lyrical & breathtaking On the surface, Roger Real Drouin's `No Other Way' is a tale of two men -- one a nature photographer obsessed with capturing on film a bird thought to be extinct, and the other, a park ranger committed to preserving a protected forest in Idaho -- who find a connection in their interests. Simmering below are important questions about the connectedness people feel to nature and the lengths they will go to protect it. Drouin writes with an earnest, eyes-wide-open writing style, and his lyrical descriptions of wildspaces in Florida and Idaho -- as well as scenes describing bird photography -- . An excellent piece of writing This novel is about two men and a near-mythical bird.Samuel is a famous bird photographer who is also dealing with his wife's death from cancer a year earlier. He is very familiar with the story of the Northern Stilted Curlew. It is a bird that has not been photographed in the wild in many years. That is because it may, or may not, be extinct. It is the bird watcher's equivalent of the Holy Grail.The Curlew migrates several thousand miles each year. Among its last untouched nesting areas is in the northern reaches of the Sanford National Forest in Utah. There are no roads; the area is acce. All Roads Lead to Idaho If Earnest Hemingway wrote Nick Adams' stories to commune with nature, No Other Way captures and catalogs what Hemingway's character found totally holy. Between urban development and the wild; between catcalls, call girls, the cries of ambulances, and the call of the wild is where the reader finds himself in No Other Way, among wet weeds, under the shadows of birds that aren't found on the lamps in grocery store parking lots. No Other Way is written in clean third-person prose and is satiated with scientific descriptions of what lives in our skies, and written by a man who obviously knows
It's a good bet No Other Way would bring a smile to Hiassen's face -- and yours." - Sarasota Herald-Tribune. "It combines a fictional story together with an Audubon guidebook" - Dew on the Kudzu""While the young author lacks Hiaasen's dark sense of humor, he shares his tree-hugging passion
Drouin is definitely a writer to keep an eye on."--Martin Lastrapes, author of Inside the Outside, winner of the Paris Book Festival Grand Prize."writes with a great sensitivity for detailbrings the reader deep into a natural setting."--Murrary Dunlap, author of Bastard Blue and Alabama."Drouin writes about nature with an innate sense of poetryNo Other Way soars for a thousand miles."--Steel Toe Review"Roger Real Drouin manages to capture the natural beauty of nature in nothing more than words and to do so in abundance.He is a gem in the literary world"--Dan Schwa