Water and what we know : following the roots of a northern life / Karen Babine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babine, Karen, 1978- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xv, 219 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

Summary:

In essays that travel from the wildness of Lake Superior to a familiar apple orchard, Karen Babine traces an ethic of place, a way to understand the essence of inhabiting a place deeply rooted in personal stories. From the Mississippi's Headwaters in Itasca State Park she explores the desire that drives the idea of the North. The bite of a Honeycrisp apple grown in Ohio returns her to her origin in Minnesota and to pie-making lessons in Gram's kitchen. In the Deadwood, South Dakota, of her great-great-grandfather; in the translation of her ancestors from Swedish to Minnesotan; on the edge of the New Madrid Fault in Nehraska; through the flatlands along 1-90; at the foot of Mount St. Helens; Babine pursures what the Irish cell dinnseanchas, place-lore. Book jacket.

Contents:

Roald Amundsen's Teeth 1

The Inheritance of Apples 14

Water and What It Knows 31

The River-1997 51

The Canoe 71

Deadwood 84

Petrography 104

Recorded History 120

Holden 145

Faults 152

Grain Elevator Skyline 161

1-90 176

Ballerina in a Snowsuit 194

The Weight of Water 202.

ISBN:

9780816696789

0816696780

OCLC:

892213080