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  Ehrlich Gretel : Struck by Lightning (Paperback) By (author) Gretel Ehrlich

  

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  Short Description for Ehrlich Gretel : Struck by LightningAfter nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a grueling but often exhilarating journey back to the land of the living. Here she invites readers to share that journey, as she hungrily explores the natural and spiritual world to try and make sense of what happened to her.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 29 June 1995
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering
  • ISBN 13: 9780140179378 ISBN 10: 0140179372
  • Sales rank: 1,070,339

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Full description for Ehrlich Gretel : Struck by Lightning

• "Before electricity carved its blue path toward me, before the negative charge shot down from cloud to ground...before air expanded and contracted producing loud pressure pulses I could not hear because I was already dead, I had been walking." So opens Gretel Ehrlich's absorbing account of being struck by lightning. Only when she fell to the ground, her head and body hitting on rock, was she jolted back to consciousness, back to life. In this astonishing chronicle of her experience and of the physical, psychological, and spiritual consequences of the encounter, the author turns her acute naturalist's eye on herself and on the natural world of the body to understand exactly what happened when lightning struck her. Woven into the narrative of her recovery is an examination of the heart - medical, religious, and cultural: There is the path of healing that she traveled not only with the requisite cardiologist but, to quite amazing effect, with her dogs as well. And finally, there is water, and the ways in which, in its contemplation and its immersion, she learned how fire can be extinguished. A Match to the Heart is a stunning work of observation and synthesis: bringing together the most minute self-exploratory and an enlarging, illuminating vision of the world.