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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... Earth was beautiful , and we were surrounded with blessings of the great mystery . CHIEF LUTHER STANDING BEAR , SIOUX [ 17 ] The rolling hills that were beautiful to the first people are now my Paradise , and I too feel " surrounded ...
... Earth's clock , I was aware of three other circles of time intertwining in my life . One circle was the cyclical division of the year observed for the purposes of the ranch . It was Cosmic time , concerned with the management of the ...
... 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 reservations and pushing the buffaloes off the face of the earth . In their stead ...
... earth whilst I am here . Always , whether with summer grazing or growing hay feed for winter , it is a necessity that my land should be in good heart . How grateful I feel that in the course of my work I meet the earth . Let this book ...
... secret spot . It was too dangerous to continue . On the way home Bucky was busy digging into a coyote cave with all four paws . Even though the earth is frozen One day in January 1887 the citizens of Macleod saw. A WALKABOUT IN THE WOODS.
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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 |