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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... woods and to looking at the creek . I remember one lengthening March twilight with pine trees dark and distant , and the embers of a serenely cloudy sky towering over me , both transitory and yet eternal ; it was then that I began ...
... book I have tried to compose for the reader a simple way of tip - toeing with me to my Source of influence ; to reveal and to share the mysteries of my heart . Late one afternoon in June I was walking in the. A WALKABOUT IN THE WOODS.
... It was too dangerous to continue . On the way home Bucky was busy digging into a coyote cave with all four paws . Even though the earth is frozen One day in January 1887 the citizens of Macleod saw. A WALKABOUT IN THE WOODS.
... of the still - point , where you can never stay but only visit for a moment . So I rose and went back to work truly revitalised , and took a handful of snow to my lips . winter of '86 was the end of all but a. A WALKABOUT IN THE WOODS.
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 |