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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... snow are falling ... April's end ... The whirr of wings ... I come this morning ... Yesterday I arrived ... Bucky came to the ranch ... Winter is swapping - story time ... The feverish scurry and flurry ... Before the break of day ...
... snow was on the ground . As these walkabouts meandered their way through the year , by interspersing my remembrances of them through this book I have tried to compose for the reader a simple way of tip - toeing with me to my Source of ...
... snow piling all over the country in deep , crusted drifts , blizzards screaming across the open , cattle hump- ing up and perishing from the bitter cold . It was without doubt the worst winter ever seen in the Alberta ranch business ...
... snow , one against the other . Even though I skied along the frozen creek , and Bucky followed coyote tracks that criss - crossed it , when it was time to go home he felt he hadn't had enough fun out of doors , so I thought , " Whatever ...
... snow to the north . The cloud drew slowly , draggingly nearer , until it was seen that a herd of thousands of range cattle were coming from the north , staggering blindly along the sixty - foot confines of the road in search of open ...
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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 |