- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton; Ill edition (April 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393318850
- ISBN-13: 978-0393318852
- Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 20.3 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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#340,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #40 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Self-Help > Journal Writing
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From Library Journal
Artist and naturalist Hinchman, who has kept a journal since 1970, shares in this work her ideas about keeping a daily record of one's observations and experiences. Her advice, directed to "would-be naturalist/journal-keepers," focuses on the tangible details of the natural world, "moments of the ordinary-made-extraordinary by the simple act of choosing and isolating them." She emphasizes the value of adding drawings to a journal and includes many samples of her annotated sketches of plants, animals, and landscapes. Excerpts from her own writings are basically accounts of the minutiae of her surroundings in Wyoming's Northern Rockies. Although her excerpts lack real insight, her recommendations for observing the natural world more intensely are valuable. A potentially helpful purchase.?Ilse Heidmann, San Marcos, Tex.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This is an important book, brilliantly produced. Its light will linger a long, long time. -- John R. Stilgoe, professor in the History of Landscape, Harvard University
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When I began my first journal, I meant it to be a volume of woods lore, based on Ernest Thomson Seton's Two Little Savages, his illustrated volume of life in the wild. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful introduction to visual diary-keeping,
By economist "economist" (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Trail Through The Leaves (Paperback)
In my 15 years of keeping a diary, I spent the first 10 keeping a conventional written record of thoughts, ideas, and occurances. But about 5 years ago my diary keeping received a pleasant and unexpected jolt when I encountered Hannah Hinchman's 'A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place'. This beautifully written and illustrated book on keeping a visual diary completely enlarged my ideas of what a diary could be: a visual record as well as a meditation on the material universe.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Overwrought,
By A Customer
This review is from: Trail Through The Leaves (Hardcover)
The author favors an elaborate, self-conscious type of writing. Put bluntly, her prose is frequently purple. The drawing and writing lack the spontaneity that would be expected in genuine journal excerpts. The overall artwork is quite poor--flat, tentative drawings and watercolor pieces with mushy brushwork that leave the images feeling overworked and without any sense of weight.
1.0 out of 5 stars
such potential....such bias,
By A Customer
This review is from: Trail Through The Leaves (Hardcover)
If you are a biologist or scientist who also does art, this book may be as offensive to you as it was to me. This person presents an approach to 'seeing' which she suggests is the only true way to see. She gives extensive examples of how blind biologists/scientists are to the world. Her pretention only uncovers her own ignorance. I had such high hopes for this book. I had hoped to improve my field sketching skills. The only information I got from this book was an updated list of supplies. No useful technique information. Quite a bit of quirky annoying dogma.
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