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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... 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 ...
... sense of place , be it a club , a landscape or a filling station : [ 9 ] Each day at Rumsey ... As I go to my. Oh , but it is dirty ! – this little filling station , oil - soaked , oil - permeated to a surprising , over - all black ...
... sense of self that is separate , within a crowd . A lone flyer amongst a flock of birds is rare : he was that . Whenever people gathered , be it businessmen or bankers , he always did stand outside and see other layers , other strata ...
... sense on the true 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 ...
... sense of commitment to their country , a whole different being arises . Why else do animals give birth on the same ley line ? Why else do people hark back to their natal spot as they get older - and very often return there ? Bucky goes ...
Cuprins
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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 |