The Long Shore: A Psychological Experience of the Wilderness

by Jane Wheelwright, Lynda W. Schmidt

Book by Wheelwright, Jane

202 pages, Hardcover

First published March 13, 1991

Reviews

[Mary Hannibal · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got a lot out of this book, partly because the authors are struggling and straining after something they don't quite ever grasp, and it was interesting to just wonder what exactly they are after and why it eludes them. The writers are mother-daughter Jungian analysts and they recount in alternating voices the story of losing the family ranch in Hollister, California, then regaining a small piece of it. I think it would have been more satisfying if they had just told the story without framing "meanings" around it, but they are trying to define a dimension of value in the land we all know is there, without being quite able to say why or what it is.