Name: Hunger Mountain
ISBN: 9781611800166

David Hinton

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--a profoundly ancient and resoundingly contemporary spiritual ecology.

A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape

Hunger Mountain

Bryan Alexander

A gorgeous, deeply thoughtful book. Hunger Mountain combines landscape writing with reflections on Chinese language and philosophy. Every short chapter offers a glimpse of Hinton's experience of the outdoors, connected to the explication of a single Chinese character through historical etymology, poetry, and religion.

The sequence of chapters isn't random. Hinton returns to most of his themes and references, building up to a synthetic vision. His remix poem is pretty good, too.

Hunger Mountain A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape