THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

However This Anthology Is Not About Her But About The Authors Who Contributed To It: Those Writers Who Took The Time To Contemplate Isolation Loneliness And Solitude In All Its Various Formsâ With Wonder And Worry And Wisdom. . Charlotte Austin Sums Up The Thematic Concept In Her Essay  I Go To The Mountainâ :. Sometime That Afternoon Miles From The Glacier And Still Miles From The Car I Wonder: Why Have I Come Here? It Is Not For The Glamour Of Climbing Mountains For I Have Told No One Where I Will Be. It Is Not For The Solitude Although It Is Something I Crave. Though I Do Not Admit It To Myself At The Time I Do Know: I Come To The Mountains For This Dirty Sweating Hungry Bruised State. The Argentinean Climber Rolando Garibotti Names It: It Is The Search For  Unmitigated Contact With The Natural World. I Am There To Strip Away The Human Separation That Hovers Between Me And The Rest Of The World So That I Can Not Only See But Feel Where I Am Who I Am What I Am. City Life Is More Sanitary And May Be Safer But It Has Created A Distance Physically And Emotionally Between Humans And The Rest Of The Universe.