Böcker av Jack Loeffler

This volume "curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler--itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector--whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the borderlands and to bring 'indigenous mindedness' to the forefront of the conversation about our precarious environments and our decaying planet. [This] is a sweeping manifesto of Jack's core beliefs and long experience as a fierce (and funny) advocate for nature and nature-mindedness and against poisonous politics and policies"--

In 1984, Jack Loeffler produced a radio series entitled "e;Southwest Sound Collage."e; His primary listener was his great friend author Edward Abbey who said, "e;Loeffler, this radio series should be a book."e; Thus, "e;Headed Upstream"e; first appeared in 1989 shortly after Abbey's death. The challenging interviews that appear herein (Edward Abbey, Andrew Weil, John Nichols, Stewart Udall, and Gary Snyder, to name a few) reflect many points of view from anarchist to Marxist, from environmental to philosophical, from Beat to historical. Each is highly individual and all reflect deep consideration for the myriad factors that have shaped our milieu. In 2009, Loeffler's close friend Gary Snyder said, "e;This book should be re-published. It's important."e; Indeed, it is an important presentation of human consciousness at its best.