Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Buddhism In these letters

In these letters

Diverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreau's politics from his interest in nature

when the nation's westward expansion was bringing to a head the racial tensions that would result in the Civil War

as Epictetus explains the work and exercises aspirants need to do to enrich and deepen their lives

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Buddhism In these letters"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian