{"product_id":"9781456822958","title":"THE ENDS OF THE EARTH","description":"However, this anthology is not about her, but about the authors who contributed to it: those writers who took the time to contemplate isolation, loneliness, and solitude in all its various forms-with wonder and worry and wisdom.    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Austin sums up the thematic concept in her essay, \"I Go to the Mountain\":  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSometime that afternoon, miles from the glacier and still miles from the car, I wonder: Why have I come here?  It is not for the glamour of climbing mountains, for I have told no one where I will be.  It is not for the solitude, although it is something I crave.  Though I do not admit it to myself at the time, I do know: I come to the mountains for this dirty, sweating, hungry, bruised state.  The Argentinean climber Rolando Garibotti names it: it is the search for \"unmitigated contact with the natural world.\"  I am there to strip away the human separation that hovers between me and the rest of the world, so that I can not only see but feel where I am, who I am, what I am.  City life is more sanitary, and may be safer, but it has created a distance, physically and emotionally, between humans and the rest of the universe.    \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140860100848,"sku":"9781456822958","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781456822958_p0.jpg?v=1763857811","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781456822958","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}