Originally published in 2016-now available in paperback for the first time
Long rumored to exist, The Great Clod collects eight essays, several published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago
Including "Summer in Hokkaido," "Wild in China," "Ink and Charcoal, "Stories to Save the World," and "Walking the Great Ridge," these essays weave memoirs of travel with prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion.
Filled with Snyder's remarkable insights and briskly beautiful descriptions, this collection adds enormously to the major corpus of his work, certain to delight and instruct his readers now and forever.