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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... present with an Indian encampment that existed then . White man's adaptation to this country , and to the herds of domestic animals that sustain him here , shows first in the land- scapes with their log barns and barbed wire fences ...
... present has a fresh delight . So on this day , and with this feeling , I decided to lie in the snow ; I felt I was lying on a cloud - it was billowing , it moved , it had waves in it , the white clouds in the heaven above were under me ...
... present . I write of him as if I go to a window to look at the landscape and point out what I see . Truth mattered to him . Everyone is always wondering in the privacy of their mind and heart what is truth and what is a lie . Good and ...
... present markings from others of his four - footed kind . Where I'm sitting is quite moist , it is 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 ...
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Cuprins
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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 |