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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... wind , fill me with a joy that never dies . We did not think of the great open plains , the beautiful rolling hills , and the winding streams with tangled growth as wild . Only to the white man was nature a wilderness ... to us it was ...
... wind has blown over them and shifted them . There are no words to describe the feast for the eyes . But the creek is precarious because some parts are frozen solid and some still flow , and if my foot went in it would be like an instant ...
... wind in a field of grass , or grain ready for harvesting , moving through space with all the rhythm and flow of ocean waves . He was brought up to know there is divinity in everything , and a non - harming of his fellow creatures was ...
... Wind purrs softly ( not always ) . Two old diamond willow bushes have clusters of branches blown by the wind , causing them to rest on top of each other , linking them together , creating an arch or a gate in nature . An arch in the ...
... wind . I've just pulled on a sapling for support to climb an embankment and it came right up in my hand , because it wasn't rooted , and I realise how much to be cherished roots are . When you see them exposed from these pine trees ...
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 |