Coves of Departure

In a book that has been called "a love song to nature," the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. While much of the book narrates his experience as a writing professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago each year during spring break, the book also reflects on experiences with a condor restoration project in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, and an altogether different teaching experience based in a field station on Bahia de los Angeles. While the author's intent is to evoke Baja ecologies in fresh ways, the reader comes to realize that he's also describing how education can become a transformational experience. A retired scuba instructor who turned to academics and went on to receive his college's highest teaching award, Dr. Farnsworth believes that education should be a lifelong adventure, and that explorations of the natural world should be animated by reverence and delight.

Auteur

John Seibert Farnsworth

Contenu

Acknowledgments
Headwinds

1. Vernal Equinox
2. Night Life
3. Transect in the Sierra de la Laguna
4. To the Island
   First Interlude: August in Bahia de los Angeles
5. Same Beach, Different Expedition
6. Sea Sparkle
7. Red Sky at Morning
   Second Interlude: June in the Sierra San Pedro Martir
   Essay: The Cove of Departure
8. Death and Poetry in the Sand Dunes
   Tailwind
   Bibiliography