Gretel Ehrlich

This series of essays about rural life, based on the author's experiences on a small farm in Wyoming, focuses on the people and landscape of the West and explore themes common to all areas

The Solace of Open Spaces

The author of A Match to the Heart describes her seven-year odyssey back and forth to Greenland to explore the culture, society, and lifestyle of the polar Eskimos and to learn about the lives of others who had chosen to live in a land dominated by ice. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Seven Seasons in Greenland

This Cold Heaven

An insightful study of the complex, primal essence of cold describes the author's firsthand experience with the diverse forces of cold, including wind, water, snow, and ice, her journeys to the far reaches of the planet to explore the effects of cold, the forces that are destroying the season of winter, and why the chaotic rhythms of weather are becoming ever more disruptive. Reprint. 12,500 first printing

A Journey Into Cold

The Future Of Ice

Collects survivors' accounts of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tåohoku coast of northeastern Japan.

A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

Facing the Wave

Nature's Visionary

John Muir

Islands, the Universe, Home

Describes the Western setting of the film and the origins of the horses, and recounts the making of the movie

An Illustrated Companion to the Major Motion Picture

The Horse Whisperer

Presents essays exploring the relationship between the human and the natural world.

A powerful chronicle of a wounded woman’s exploration of nature and self After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a painstaking and visionary journey back to the land of the living. With the help of an extraordinary cardiologist and the companionship of her beloved dog Sam, she avidly explores the natural and spiritual world to make sense of what happened to her. We follow as she combs every inch of her new home on the California coast, attends a convention of lightning-strike victims, and goes on a seal watch in Alaska. Ehrlich then turns her focus inward, exploring the tiny but equally fascinating ecosystem of the human heart, and culminated in a stunningly beautiful description of open-heart surgery.

One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

A Match to the Heart

Discusses the peoples of the high Arctic, their traditions, and the changes they face in the modern world and from global warming, in a book that looks at languages, hunting traditions, and religious practices.

Encounters in a Changing Landscape

In the Empire of Ice

From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis. Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in breadth, and as elegant as a Japanese teahouse. "Sentience and sunderance," Ehrlich writes. "How we know what we know, who teaches us, how easy it is to lose it all." As if to stave off impending loss, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan, and an uninhabited Alaskan island, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them.

Along the Way to All That Is

Unsolaced

Susan Sontag

Joyce Carol Oates

Virginia Woolf

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Jamaica Kincaid

Joan Didion

Jenny Diski

Elizabeth David

Annie Dillard

M. F. K. Fisher

Anne Fadiman

Elizabeth Hardwick

Cynthia Ozick

Margaret Cavendish

Rebecca West

Alice Walker

Linda Hogan

Zora Neale Hurston

Elizabeth Bowen

Fanny Fern

Eliza Haywood

Sara Suleri

Grace Greenwood

Charlotte Lennox

Margaret Fuller

Vernon Lee

Eliza Lynn Linton

Kyoko Mori

Lydia Maria Child

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Harriet Martineau

Gail Hamilton

Frances Brooke

Mary Russell Mitford

Frances Power Cobbe

Zitkala-Sa

Alice Meynell

Louise Imogen Guiney

Ann Plato

Agnes Repplier

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Judith Sargent Murray

Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris

Gertrude Bustill Mossell

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

Of Women and the Essay brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. The contributions of these essayists prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre’s modern beginnings in the sixteenth century. Many of these essayists, such as Eliza Haywood, Fanny Fern, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Agnes Repplier, and Alice Meynell, achieved significant success as writers within whatever essay form ruled the day; others bent the rules, though often imperceptibly, to make room for themselves. Collectively they represent a missing piece in the larger history of the essay. In Of Women and the Essay Jenny Spinner contextualizes the broad range of literary essays included within the chronological development of the genre. She makes a compelling argument that women have constructed their own tradition in the essay genre, often utilizing periodic traits of the essay to their own advantage. At the same time, she suggests that the personal essay’s demands on the essayist required both a public and personal authorization that proved challenging for women essayists in general and for women of color in particular. The appendix catalogs the works of nearly 200 female essayists and should inspire further reading. As a whole, the volume lifts women writers from the cutting-room floor of essay scholarship and returns them to their rightful place in the essay canon.

An Anthology from 1655 to 2000

Of Women and the Essay

der Bildband zum Film

Der Pferdeflüsterer

The author of A Match to the Heart describes her seven-year odyssey back and forth to Greenland to explore the culture, society, and lifestyle of the polar Eskimos and to learn about the lives of others who had chosen to live in a land dominated by ice. 40,000 first printing.

A la suite d'un deuil, Gretel Ehrlich, scénariste à Hollywood, part à la recherche d'un lieu où abriter sa douleur. Ce sera le Wyoming. De cette existence au cœur d'une nature presque intacte, en compagnie de bergers et de cow-boys auprès desquels elle va redonner un sens à sa vie, est née La Consolation des grands espaces. A la manière de Walden ou la Vie dans les bois de Thoreau ou de Pèlerinage à Tinker Creek d'Annie Dillard, cette peinture d'une Amérique insoupçonnée est aussi le récit d'une expérience essentielle, d'une renaissance bouleversante, vécue dans le souffle vivifiant d'espaces vierges où l'auteur découvre enfin le sentiment de faire partie d'un tout.

La consolation des grands espaces

Un freddo paradiso. Sette stagioni in Groenlandia

Kendall Nelson

Felicitas Funke-Riehle

Contemporary cowboy life is masterfully revealed in this new book of large-format duotone photographs.

A Tribute to the Working Cowboy

Gathering Remnants

"Ehrlich ventures confidently into new terrain in her eloquent and affecting debut children's novel. [Her] prose, as pristine and spare as her snow-covered landscape, portrays the quiet drama of the changing seasons -- in both their consistency and unpredictability -- as well as a family attuned to nature's every nuance." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review

A Blizzard Year

The story of Santa Rosa Island, its cowboys, and the four generations of Vail & Vickers men and women who were at home on 54,000 ocean-bond acres.

Farewell to a Ranching Legacy

Cowboy Island

Gretel Ehrlich

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