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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... deep ; below this patch of sky , the blessings of Heaven . My father tried to cherish the plants within his crop and the animals of his stock as best he knew . To the Jew , aware from his Biblical learnings of the invisible presence of ...
... deep , crusted drifts , blizzards screaming across the open , cattle hump- ing up and perishing from the bitter cold . It was without doubt the worst winter ever seen in the Alberta ranch business , for , although the loss was heavier ...
... deep winter , and my journey there is quite daunting . There have been several weeks of 35 ° -40 ° below , and the ice crystals in the creek resemble coral reef . It is like skiing cross - country over a field of crystals . Bucky stops ...
... deep . So they survived . This was the world my father entered at the age of nine . 2. The Great Plains by Ian Frazier ( Faber and Faber , 1990 ) , Chap . 4 , p . 64 . [ 30 ] My grandfather and his people were mostly GRANDFATHER NAHUM.
... deep in the woods and there is no wind . I've just pulled on a sapling for support to climb an embankment and it came right up in my hand , because it wasn't rooted , and I realise how much to be cherished roots are . When you see them ...
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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 |