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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... spring ; knowing it through some seasons when the weather has beauty and gentleness , and others when it can be daunting ; seeing it when the grass along its edge scarcely stirs , or when it is flooded with wind , fill me with a joy ...
... spring I could smell the resin and fir needles , and sap oozed from the trunks where elk had scratched for it when the snow was on the ground . As these walkabouts meandered their way through the year , by interspersing my remembrances ...
... 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 from ...
... spring the bodies lying where the fence had barred the drifting , and caused the dazed animals to stand helplessly until the end came . " Ranchers who had not been upset to see dead buffalo everywhere were sickened by what the winter of ...
... springtime , which is unique to Alberta , and was my father's favourite “ scent memory ” . The trees grew chiefly in gravel beds alongside creeks in a surround of white flowers . The Old Man's Garden ( Old Man is the native word for the ...
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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 |