Temporary Homelands

Type

Book

Authors

Alison Hawthorne Deming

ISBN 10

0312144288

ISBN 13

9780312144289

Tags

Nature Writing & Essays, Human Geography, Sociology

Description

These essays, by an exciting new voice in nature writing, combine the objectivity of a field notebook and the subjectivity of personal memoir. Tracing the subtle connections and tensions between wilderness and human culture, Deming explores our need for a place within the natural world. Inspired by four loved places - the northeast woods of her childhood, a remote Canadian island off the eastern seaboard, southeast Alaska, and the American southwest - the essays trace one woman's journey in search of a spiritual home. Throughout her sojourns in "temporary homelands, " Deming reflects on natural harmony and the discord with the natural world that our culture has created. - from Amzon

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