Hunger Mountain

A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape

David Hinton

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Shambhala
15 November 2012

The environment

""Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont-excursions informed by the worldview he's imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy.""

Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont-excursions informed by the worldview he's imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape to the origins of consciousness and the Cosmos, from geology to Chinese landscape painting, from parenting to pictographic oracle-bone script, to a family chutney recipe. It's a spiritual ecology that is profoundly ancient and at the same time resoundingly contemporary. Your view of the landscape-and of your place in it-may never be the same.

By: David Hinton
Imprint: Shambhala
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 176g
ISBN: 9781611800166
ISBN 10: 1611800161
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 November 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Hinton has earned wide acclaim for his many translations of classical Chinese poetry, which critics say convey the actual texture and density of the originals. He is also the first translator in over a century to translate the four seminal masterworks of Chinese philosophy- the Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, the Analects, and Mencius. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States- the Landon Translation Award, from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Translation Award, from the PEN American Center. His most recent book is his monumental Classical Chinese Poetry- An Anthology.

Reviews for Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape

This is a book of power, the very opposite of mystical. If you have a special mountain in your life, you'll read it with understanding; if you don't, it will make you want to get one! --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet .