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Finding higher ground : a life of travels : essays / by Catharine Savage Brosman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934-
- Series:
- Environmental arts and humanities series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934-.
- Southwest, New--Description and travel.
- Southwest, New.
- New Southwest.
- Texas, West--Description and travel.
- Texas, West.
- New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Place (Philosophy).
- Regionalism.
- Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934---Childhood and youth.
- Brosman, Catharine Savage.
- Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934---Travel.
- Travel.
- Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934---Homes and haunts.
- New Orleans (La.)--Discovery and exploration.
- West Texas.
- Local Subjects:
- New Orleans (La.)--Discovery and exploration.
- Physical Description:
- 204 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- "Place is not only a metaphor for the self; it can be the self objectified, including the self of years ago." So writes Catharine Savage Brosman, who explores the places of her own life in the essays in Finding Higher Ground. The tour, for the reader, is one of delight and wonder. Brosman's places range from the West Texas desert of her girlhood to a chilly flat in the North of England, from the flooded streets of New Orleans to the sublimities of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Even as her meditations reflect on her connections to these places and the ways they have shaped her life, at the same time they also examine the broader connections between individual and community, culture and society, experience and memory. Her voice is unique -- combining a poet's sensitivity to nuances of setting and behavior with salty good sense, passionate engagement in the world of letters, sly wit, and a rugged independence of character inherited from generations of her Western ancestors. Whether sipping wine in a Parisian cafe, partying with the jet set in Aspen, or contemplating the arid desert West that she loves so deeply, Brosman inhabits these settings, and many others, with a sense of adventure and discovery. To read these essays is to enjoy the company of a lively, thoughtful, original mind. Brosman's "higher ground" is that place we all seek, where we can find and express our own best selves.
- Contents:
- Watershed: An Introduction 1
- The Immeasurable Sky 11
- A House Apart 25
- "... To Miss New Orleans" 40
- After the Flood 50
- Getting Along 64
- Desert 79
- Sneaker Ball 97
- The Rhythm of Experience 117
- Under the Lone Star 135
- Images of Paris 154
- A British Interlude 168
- Higher Ground 186.
- ISBN:
- 0874175380
- OCLC:
- 50348222
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