About Loose on the Landscape
The unexpected emerges as you slip down the author’s rabbit holes, emerging where nature inspires a sense of wonder, adventure, danger, reflective thought, a zest for life, and the connections most of us have with the wild places. “Loose on the Landscape” features
#CreativeNonfiction, #WildNature, #OutdoorAdventures, #LiteraryNonfiction, #TrueAdventures, #EnvironmentalScience, #Ecology. This book is for those who have ever wondered what it’s like alone at midnight in the depths of a vast marsh, or thought of stumbling into a roiling geyser field in the dark. What happens when you get swept along for miles in a flooded river without an exit—or explore a prehistoric swamp with predators left over from the Cretaceous? How can you sense an Amazon rainforest breathing? Have you watched a great ancient waterfall cease forever in less than a day? Does the Jersey Devil still inhabit the pine barrens? As a professional ecologist, Joel Everett Harding looks for meaning in the wildest places, and shows us a range of perspectives for appreciating the mental, emotional, and physical benefits of immersing ourselves in wild landscapes.
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Author Bio:
Joel Everett Harding is the pen name of a professional field ecologist who has spent decades exploring the wild places nature offers us. The author has professional credentials in a variety of scientific fields, including ecosystem ecology, wildlife biology, animal behavior, habitat restorations, and eco-engineering. He has been a scientist to private industry, federal, state and local governments and nonprofit organizations. His personal adventures and scientific investigations have taken him to landscapes throughout North America and elsewhere. He has enjoyed “collecting” ecosystems and wildscape experiences of all sizes, from puddles to rainforests and everything in-between. He lives in the rural mid-Atlantic Piedmont region, and when not visiting the wild places, he prefers painting scenes that have inspired him.