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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... . Yesterday I arrived ... Bucky came to the ranch ... Winter is swapping - story time ... The feverish scurry and flurry ... Before the break of day ... INTRODUCTION PROLOGUE GRANDFATHER NAHUM MY FATHER THE SACRED AND THE.
... winter , it is a necessity that my land should be in good heart . How grateful I feel that in the course of my work I meet the earth . Let this book be a journey into a landscape and its people and the creatures thereon . Let us travel ...
... winter of '86 was a terrible one , with 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 ...
... winter , and my journey there is quite daunting . There have been several weeks of 35 ° -40 ° below , and the ice crystals in the creek resemble coral reef . It is like skiing cross - country over a field of crystals . Bucky stops every ...
... 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 ... The [ 27 ] - they've [ 28 ] he has made a dent GRANDFATHER NAHUM.
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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 |