From the Back Cover:
"This delicious memoir tweaks the Thoreauvian ideal in a tribute to city life. . . . Comparisons to classics such as Walden and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek are inevitable, but Siebert's book holds up."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
"Highly recommended. This is not a typical 'man escapes to the natural world and becomes whole' story. Rather the lines between city and country become blurred, giving the impression that one leads to the other and that both worlds inspire their unique awe."
--Library Journal
"The poles of Siebert's pastoral are Brooklyn, of which he is a native, and the landscape of southern Quebec, where a decrepit spruce-log cabin, called Wickerby, stands in an open field. . . . Siebert's enterprise is to reconnect the city with nature. Siebert . . . joins man and nature, machine and flesh, city and country in a single vision, which is rooted in an instinctive human ambition . . . beautifully evoked."
--Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times Book Review
"A Roger Tory Peterson of the outer-borough streets, an Audubon of Grand Army Plaza. This guy Siebert is a writer. And he's not just a writer, he's an observer . . . he is, in fact, one of the city's sweetest, most clear-eyed chroniclers since E. B. White, and, at its best, this book reads like White's classic Here Is New York transposed to the outer boroughs and the l990s."
--Bill McKibben, New York Observer
"A work of great humor, deep humanity, and breathtaking sentences, Wickerby manages--very genially--to turn Walden completely inside out and upside down. Charles Seibert upends all our preconceptions about 'nature' and 'civilization,' two words that look completely different by the end of this gem of a book. Seibert brings a wonderful new voice to American nature writing."
--Michael Pollan
About the Author:
Charles Siebert's essays, articles and poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Outside.
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