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The Human Field Guide
An invitation to walk alongside us once in a while.
Seven volumes about being human: our arrival, movement, mind, companions, landscape, practice, and continued being. Erik Simpson writes through ordinary encounters, questions, and the things we begin to notice along the way.
The Complete Trail gathers Volumes I–VII into one book. Individual volumes offer a shorter stretch of the walk.
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Notice Books
The Human Field Guide
Seven volumes for the walk of being human, and one complete edition. Written by Erik Simpson and published by Notice Books.
Volume I — Our Arrival
Begin with the simplest fact: we are here. Arrival opens the trail by looking at what it means to find ourselves alive in a world already in motion.
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Volume II — Movement
A look at motion, stillness, balance, risk, and the ways a body learns its path by moving through the world.
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Volume III — The Mind
Attention turns inward to memory, thought, ego, agency, and the strange companion we carry behind our eyes.
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Volume IV — Our Other Companions
No human walks alone. This volume follows the people, animals, memories, and relationships that share the trail with us.
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Volume V — Our Landscape
The field widens to the places, systems, weather, resources, and living world through which every human life moves.
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Volume VI — Our Practice
Knowing is not the same as living. Practice asks what happens when attention becomes something we repeatedly do.
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Volume VII — Our Continued Being
The trail does not end with certainty. It continues through change, loss, gain, unknowns, and the next step we choose to take.
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The Complete Trail
Through personal stories, quiet observations, humor, and philosophical reflection, Erik Simpson explores the strange experience of being human. This illustrated complete edition brings together all seven volumes.
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