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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... stand - off that still exists globally between the citizen who worries about his or her environment , the Petroleum Industry which is concerned with its legitimate profits and the regulatory agency that must attempt to carry out ...
... stand helplessly until the end came . " Ranchers who had not been upset to see dead buffalo everywhere were sickened by what the winter of '86 did to their cattle . Some gave up ranching entirely ; some could never own a cow again ...
... stand on the earth , where suffering has been . In this new land there was no troubling of the earth's surface where my grandfather stood . And there was freedom from fear ; here a man could walk tall , arms outspread , instead of ...
... stand in her way . Some people could not tolerate this quality of intensity , but it appealed to me , and she was very dear to me . She also , I think , felt a special tenderness for me , though all her family came under her protection ...
... stand outside and see other layers , other strata , all the streams that bind life together . Although he made friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness , as in the New Testament , that was not what he was after , but he took it into ...
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 |