Mostly Water (eBook)

Reflections Rural and North

Mary Odden (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
247 Seiten
Red Hen Press (Verlag)
978-1-59709-918-9 (ISBN)

Infos

These linked essays form a memoir exploring the American outback from eastern Oregon horse trails to the arctic and subarctic river towns of Alaska.In Mostly Water, Alaska-based journalist and nature writer Mary Odden shares a series of personal essays celebrating the beauty and independent spirit of America's remote and rural Northern spaces. In these landscapes, human dwellers are entwined in histories and anecdotes as loopy as northern rivers.Odden invites the reader to a vivid patchwork of characters and seldom-seen places, with a soundtrack from fiddle dances and a menu that is "e;half potlatch and half potluck."e; Each essay features a recipe for a traditional regional dish, such as mincemeat, creamed salmon, and lingonberry sauce. As the stories unfold, events of the churning twenty-first century rise like the sea-as does a love of human togetherness and the precious otherness of nature.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Alaska, women cowboys, women, climate change, northern lifestyle, hunting, nature, wilderness, airplanes, Kuskokwim River, folk music, pioneers, Alaska Native people, Alaska Marine Highway, Yukon River, Copper River Valley, Kobuk River, forest fires, giving birth, dogs
• ISBN-10: 1-59709-918-X / 159709918X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-918-9 / 9781597099189