Semi Finalist
Assessment:
Concept/Idea: Nauman's Walking the Land advises readers on how best to connect and coexist with nature, particularly as wild spaces disappear. The author's guide is highly spiritual, and draws from her own Cherokee upbringing as well as numerous other spiritual, mythical, and metaphysical sources and traditions.
Prose: Nauman's prose is fast-paced, expansive, and passionate. She writes lyrically and energetically about approaches readers might take to become better attuned to nature and, in effect, themselves.
Originality: Nauman's primary focus is on providing readers with the tools they might need to connect spiritually with the wilderness and to broaden their senses and perceptions. Few titles are focused so expressly and extensively on the topic of becoming grounded in and communicating with nature.
Execution: The development of the subject is well-balanced. Nauman convincingly establishes herself as an authority on the methods she introduces, while offering readers engaging storytelling.
Date Submitted: January 27, 2020
Title: Walking the Land
Author: Eileen Nauman
Genre: Nonfiction/Self-Help & Relationship
Audience: Adult
Word Count: 230
Assessment:
Concept/Idea: Nauman's Walking the Land advises readers on how best to connect and coexist with nature, particularly as wild spaces disappear. The author's guide is highly spiritual, and draws from her own Cherokee upbringing as well as numerous other spiritual, mythical, and metaphysical sources and traditions.
Prose: Nauman's prose is fast-paced, expansive, and passionate. She writes lyrically and energetically about approaches readers might take to become better attuned to nature and, in effect, themselves.
Originality: Nauman's primary focus is on providing readers with the tools they might need to connect spiritually with the wilderness and to broaden their senses and perceptions. Few titles are focused so expressly and extensively on the topic of becoming grounded in and communicating with nature.
Execution: The development of the subject is well-balanced. Nauman convincingly establishes herself as an authority on the methods she introduces, while offering readers engaging storytelling.
Score:
- Plot/Idea: 9
- Originality: 9
- Prose: 9
- Character/Execution: 9
- Overall: 9.00
Report Submitted: February 28, 2020