{"product_id":"a-natural-history-of-the-spirits-9798893851090","title":"A Natural History of the Spirits","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the winner of James Beard, Harriet Tubman, and Whiting Awards, a shimmering and unexpected vision of the world we inhabit together\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the celebrated journalist whose work has been hailed by Tiya Miles as “broad, complex, and unexpected,” and by \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e as “informative and compassionate,” award-winning author Jori Lewis’s stunning new book blends scientific research, myth, folklore, and cultural analysis in a lyrical literary work that observes the natural world as an entry point into understanding the traumas of our history and the unexplored dimensions of our spiritual lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n      \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Natural History of the Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e offers profound meditations on the history of colonialism, racism, and social and ecological change, exploring such wide-ranging subjects as the reproduction crisis of the long-lived African baobab tree in the face of climate change; the evolutionary history of the watermelon and how racist stereotypes related to it developed and persist in the United States; the disquieted spirits of the Senegalese island Sangomar in the wake of new oil and gas exploration in the area; and how, by observing the habits of plants and animals, we may more deeply understand how we create home.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\t\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Robin Wall \u003cem\u003eKimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass\u003c\/em\u003e and Barry Lopez’s \u003cem\u003eArctic Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Natural History of the Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e grapples with how we have made, and continue to make, meaning of the world by reading the land, the animals, the water, and the skies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jori Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48903524352251,"sku":"9798893851090","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_65d9fd6a-59a1-417b-9188-2d8922de44d8.jpg?v=1780004538","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/a-natural-history-of-the-spirits-9798893851090","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}