Heading for HomeDundurn, 30 sept. 2001 - 196 pagini Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for her rights in Western Canada. Heading for Home gives a very warm account of her companions throughout those years from cowhands to lovable animals; from concerned neighbours to the formality of the company man, some of whom too, eventually became firm friends. Aided at times in her struggle by her friend the author and tracker Andy Russell, Heading for Home tells the tale of how one woman's strength and willpower contributed to our heightened sense of mutual awareness. In the course of her long struggle to save everything she held most dear, Zahava Hanan stood squarely up to a "David and Goliath" confrontation with the corporations. During that time, however, she came to understand that by daring to care for our environment we inherit a common ground, goal and home. This book is also the story of that spiritual quest and challenge. And it is in this sense that Zahava Hanan has been "heading for home," and helping others get there, ever since. This is a masterpiece of its kind, and truly original, since nobody of her sensibility has written on the subject at all. There are countless travel books about wild places and countless cozy books about life in the town. This happens to be unique both in the handling of her environment and in her ability to feel and write about it. |
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... first people are now my Paradise , and I too feel " surrounded with blessings of the great mystery ” . Whatever happens , it is important that one's faith in goodness is not taken away . [ 18 ] Each day at Rumsey ranch succeeded the ...
... first in the land- scapes with their log barns and barbed wire fences . God's earth , which supported buffalo , elk , deer , and the first Native people , had a shift in its population , with the white man forcing the Natives into ...
... first of my family to come was my Aunt Ilke , my father's older sister . Brought up near St Petersburg by an uncle who made her his heir , she used the money to emigrate at the age of fifteen to Alberta . To begin with , she brought her ...
... first wheat crop from Rumsey's virgin soil . Underneath the floor was a root cellar of preserved vegetables and crab apples ( Alberta's only domesticated fruit ) tucked away for cold winter moments . To enter her home felt , somehow ...
... first words of the Hebrew , 1n , meaning the secret science of the Kabala . It also means a state of grace . The name , be it spelled in English Hanan , Hannen , Hanen , Hanin , or Hanina , is often cited in the Bible , Talmud and ...
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THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE | 49 |
RUMSEY | 59 |
MEETING THE LAND | 81 |
JIM COMMODORE | 87 |
BULLS | 105 |
ANDY RUSSELL | 117 |
BREAKFAST AT RUMSEY RANCH SWAPPING STORIES | 131 |
THE ESSENCE OF RANCHING | 141 |
FRESH TRACKS | 161 |
FOOT OF MAN AND HOOF OF BEAST | 173 |
EPILOGUE | 185 |