To Breathe with Birds (Ebook) von Václav Cílek

The first book-length appearance of Václav Cílek's work in English translation, To Breathe with Birds delves into the imaginative and emotional bonds we form with landscapes and how human existence—a recent development, geologically speaking—shapes and is shaped by a sense of place.

Foreword, by Laurie Olin

Preface: Gathering Strength and Drinking Dawn in the Landscape of Home

1. Geodiversity and Changes in the Bohemian Landscape
2. A Tree as a Family Member
3. A Revolution of Surface: Successful as Asphalt
4. Journey to Uničov or About the Gap Between the Birds
5. Walking Through a Landscape
6. Tranquillity at the Fundaments of the World
7. The Masked Moose and Other Stories
8. Dreaming About Vigilance: A Nut from Nine Undersea Hazel Trees
9. Journey to India: In Benares One Comes to Understand That One Was Born in Libeň
10. The Breath of Bones and Places
11. The Standard Central Bohemian Vision
12. Places from the Other Side
13. On Landscape Memory and the Stone of St. Ivan at Bytíz near Příbram
14. The Man Who Used to Write in a Forsaken Landscape
15. The Six-Cornered Snowflake
16. Bees of the Invisible

Index
Acknowledgments