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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... Walking alongside this creek , whose source is the mountain water that tumbles with happiness in the spring ; knowing it through some seasons when the weather has beauty and gentleness , and others when it can be daunting ; seeing it ...
... walking towards the woods and to looking at the creek . I remember one lengthening March twilight with pine trees ... walk became an essential element of my life . What need was there to worry or enter into their frets and threats and ...
... Walking through the tree gateway to my secret spot , and looking at the creek on the way , I was , I suppose , seeking after truth . The currents in the creek were always there , and yet at each moment they were composed of different ...
Zahava Hanan. Late one afternoon in June I was walking in the foothills of my grazing land , perceiving my sacred ... walk with elk , observing how they snatch luscious bites as they travel . In bringing my cattle to meet these ...
... . Reading these holy books that were worn almost to shreds was a fixed part of each day . He prayed and read harder than anyone I knew in my childhood . Bunyan's feat was to correlate the long walk which Jesus HEADING FOR HOME.
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 |