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Refuge : An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10067940516X
ISBN-139780679405160
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038831056
Product Key Features
Book TitleRefuge : an Unnatural History of Family and Place
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicDiseases / Cancer, General, Ecology, Regional, Animals / Birds
GenreNature, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-008104
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"There has never been a book likeRefuge, an entirely original yet tragically common story, brought exquisitely to life." --San Francisco Chronicle "Moving and loving... both a natural history of an ecological phenomenon [and] a Mormon family saga... A heroic book." --The Washington Post Book World "Brilliantly conceived... one of the most significant environmental essays of our time." --The Kansas CityStar From the Trade Paperback edition., "There has never been a book like Refuge, an entirely original yet tragically common story, brought exquisitely to life." --San Francisco Chronicle "Moving and loving... both a natural history of an ecological phenomenon [and] a Mormon family saga... A heroic book." --The Washington Post Book World "Brilliantly conceived... one of the most significant environmental essays of our time." --The Kansas City Star From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal362.1/9699449/0092 B
SynopsisIn the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation,Refugetransforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic. From the Trade Paperback edition., In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic. From the Trade Paperback edition.
LC Classification NumberQH105.U8W55 1991
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