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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Zahava Hanan. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings . ISAIAH LII . 7 . My heart always leaps when I reach Rumsey ; entering.
Zahava Hanan. My heart always leaps when I reach Rumsey ; entering it I see a view into infinity , and feel that I am going into protecting hills which will surround and comfort me . Returning to my Garden of Paradise , I am acutely ...
... tried to compose for the reader a simple way of tip - toeing with me to my Source of influence ; to reveal and to share the mysteries of my heart . Late one afternoon in June I was walking in the. A WALKABOUT IN THE WOODS.
... heart . How grateful I feel that in the course of my work I meet the earth . Let this book be a journey into a landscape and its people and the creatures thereon . Let us travel slowly , for , as with a herd and young calves , if men ...
... heart with a frenzy of fear . No shaking , bucking or plunging would free the terrible glaring object from where it hung , and the steer broke away on a long gallop , flitting like a gigantic firefly across the expanse of snow . Cowboys ...
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37 | |
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 |