The Other Side of the World

Essays and Stories on Mind and Nature

A rich collection of essays on nature, culture and the history of ideas. After 40 years of environmental work on five continents, Bill Eddy brings us his remarkable insights on the relation between thought and things.

"There is an entirely different dimension of nature that very few environmentalists are concerned with at all. And I would call this the "inside" of nature. It includes the shaping force of language, history, and culture on the way that local people perceive their natural surroundings. These ways of looking are far more difficult to quantify than water resources and soil types, but they affect absolutely everything." - Bill Eddy

"...seeing the familiar in unfamiliar ways."

	Navajo time and timelessness in the Canyon de Chelly.
	Navigating the Sahara desert by the stars at night.
	Learning how nomadic camel raisers in northern Kenya interpret photographs of their world.
	How the burial sites of Zoroastrians in Bombay, India are affected by industrial air pollution.

45 reflective essays that ask the reader to consider:

	The ways that language shapes our experience of reality.
	The profound implications for us of Galileo's trial.
	How our relation to nature has evolved over time.
	What the earth looked like before there was anybody here.