Wednesday, November 28, 7 p.m.

Leath Tonino will read from, discuss and sign his new collection of essays, "The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures," at the Vermont Book Shop.

The event is free and open to the public.

The phrase "an animal a thousand miles miles long," attributed to Aristotle, refers to a sprawling body that cannot be seen in its entirety from a single angle. For Leath Tonino, that animal is the landscape of his native Vermont. This fragmented yet deep search is the overarching theme of the twenty essays in "The Animal One Thousand Miles Long." Tonino posits that geography, natural history, human experience, local traditions, seasons, and especially atypical outings—on skis, bicycles, sleds, and boogie boards—can open us to a place and simultaneously open a place to us.