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Rock, Water, Wild - Nancy Lord

Rock, Water, Wild

An Alaskan Life

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Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2009
Bison Books (Verlag)
978-0-8032-2515-2 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
A collection of essays that explore Alaska, the environment, and the interaction between humans and nature.
For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America “big and wild enough to hold the intact landscapes and the dreams that are so absent today from almost everywhere else.” In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural world. Vast and beautiful, and much more than a mere place, Alaska is nonetheless inescapably a land of natural extremes and exquisite subtleties. In Lord’s explorations, “the country” of Alaska evokes reflections on the importance of place and space in our lives; arguments over roads carved in the wilderness; musings on the role of location and landscape in the Dena’ina Athabascan language; accounts of sport fishing in the Russian Far East in the first days of perestroika and of climbing in the Arrigetch Peaks of Alaska’s Brooks Range; and considerations of the politics of whaling. In the tradition of naturalists John Muir and John Burroughs, Lord proves an excellent guide to the challenges and pleasures of making oneself at home on this Earth.

Nancy Lord is a former Alaska Writer Laureate and a Pushcart Prize–winning author. Her previous acclaimed books include Fishcamp, Green Alaska, The Man Who Swam with Beavers, and Beluga Days.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsOn the Way      Being Peter      On Rereading Siddhartha      In the Giant's HandIn the Country      Words Honor Place      Zen Moose      Honk       Quiet Time      The Hidden Half       How to Bear Witness      Report from the Rookeries      The Farthest Island      A Border Runs Through It      The Conservationist as Wood Chopper      The Experiment      My Apologia      In Our TimeOut and Beyond      Magadan Luck      The Rings      Encounters with the Old Naturalist      A Bigger World      The Nature of Fakery      From an Old World Sea      Hope Is the Thing in Spring      I Met a Man Who Has Seen the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and This Is What He Told Me      Enough

Verlagsort Nebraska
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10 0-8032-2515-6 / 0803225156
ISBN-13 978-0-8032-2515-2 / 9780803225152
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