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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... Plant . When Zahava Hanan , the owner of the ranch , became aware in the 70s that the plant was responsible for perceived pollution on her land , she asked them to stop , and thus began a long drawn out confrontation with industry that ...
... plant ? Why , oh why , the table ? Why , oh why , the doily ? ( Embroidered in daisy stitch with marguerites , I think , and heavy with gray crochet . ) Somebody embroidered the doily . Somebody waters the plant , or oils it , maybe ...
... Plant on my grazing land which was owned by big oil , and which became part of our concern in running the ranch well . Their pace was not for everybody ; it was industry time , far less relaxed - in fact , astonishingly restless . There ...
... 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 the Creator everywhere , God in his holiness was in every living creature and plant , and ...
... plants that spring up . I had missed the crocus , but I had the further outsprouting and upwelling to look forward to , the wild roses to come and go , the yarrow , bluebells , golden rod galliardia and purple asters yet to arise . Away ...
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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 |