The Solace of Open Spaces by Ehrlich Gretel toucan This carefully observed book made

This carefully observed book made me very conscious of taking time to breathe and appreciate the world around me

A week after her first baby was born

I know that I have never had available published material of this high quality

Baroni is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the State University of New York

The Solace of Open Spaces by Ehrlich Gretel toucan This carefully observed book madeA collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich's new book, Unsolaced "Wyoming has found its Whitman." Annie Dillard Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn't leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on "the planet of Wyoming," a