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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... creature and plant , and in this ministration of earth's surface the kindness of God was felt . There was no abrupt separation between reverence for the land and living creatures and the need to earn a living : the one flowed out of the ...
... creatures thereon . Let us travel slowly , for , as with a herd and young calves , if men should overdrive all the herd will die . So I will lead you softly on , according to the pace of the cattle . [ 21 ] This page intentionally left ...
... creatures drew close , feeble , starving , skinned from the knees down by sharp snowcrusts and from stumbling and struggling to rise , hair frozen off in patches – naked , mangy steers , tottering yearlings , and dying cows . Straight ...
... creatures was central to his being . Rather than kill a fly he would open the door and let it out . Gifts of life come from the earth , and they are given to us all . The man - animal link is one of the gifts of life , and there was a ...
... creature came concern about human beings . My father was very aware of the existence of others and of what took place between them good people - watcher , but not a judge of them . He believed that to try to know a person one must not ...
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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 |