Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place

by Clare Cooper Marcus

Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

941.4

Publication

Nicolas-Hays, Inc (2010), Edition: Illustrated, 352 pages

Description

A journey of healing takes Clare Cooper Marcus on a 6-month long solitary retreat to the remote Scottish Island of Iona. Here she experiences a mirroring of her soul and reflects and reviews the life that brought her here to this magical place. Her compelling memoir Iona Dreaming is an inspirational account of personal survival and hope in which Clare shares her recovery from a life-threatening illness, which deepens into a contemplation of the events in her life and her physical, emotional and spiritual healing. Clare Cooper Marcus brings both a personal and academic life-long interface with place, environment, and people. Her five previous books about human response to architecture and environment were popular with the public and well-received by the press. Iona Dreaming will reach out to a broad audience: people entering retirement, dealing with serious illnesses, gardeners, lovers of nature, architects and landscape architects, people who are becoming more heath conscious, women who have shared the social and cultural shifts she lived through--especially those coming of age in the 60's--and all those who seek a more authentic life.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member ddailey
A nicely done memoir of a retired professor's healing journeys post cancer. Marcus designs healing garden's and is articulate about her relationship with landscape.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

9 inches

ISBN

9780892541577
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