Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World (Northwest Reprints) (Northwest Reprints Book) Second Edition, Revised Editio Ed. edition

Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales she examines our connections to our own bedrock.