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Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place / Terry Tempest Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Terry Tempest.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tempest, Diane Dixon, 1932-1987--Health.
- Tempest, Diane Dixon.
- Williams, Terry Tempest.
- Tempest, Diane Dixon, 1932-1987.
- Breast--Cancer--Patients--Utah--Biography.
- Breast.
- Breast--Cancer--Patients.
- Natural history.
- Health.
- Utah.
- Utah--Great Salt Lake Region.
- Natural history--Utah--Great Salt Lake Region.
- Breast Neoplasms.
- Disasters.
- Medical Subjects:
- Breast Neoplasms.
- Disasters.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : maps
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Second Vintage Books edition.
- Other Title:
- Unnatural history of family and place
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same spring, Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and with it the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology; Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that seems certain to become a classic in the literatures of women, nature and grieving.
- Contents:
- Burrowing owls
- Whimbrels
- Snowy egrets
- Barn swallows
- Peregrine falcon
- Wilson's phalarope
- California gulls
- Ravens
- Pink flamingos
- Snow buntings
- White pelicans
- Yellow-headed blackbirds
- Redheads
- Killdeer
- Whistling swan
- Great horned owl
- Roadrunner
- Magpies
- Long-billed curlews
- Western tanager
- Gray jays
- Meadowlarks
- Storm petrel
- Greater yellowlegs
- Canada geese
- Bald eagles
- Red-shafted flicker
- Dark-eyed junco
- Sanderlings
- Birds-of-paradise
- Pintails, mallars, and teals
- Bitterns
- Snowy plovers
- Great blue heron
- Screech owls
- Avocets and stilts
- The clan of one-breasted women.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge.
- ISBN:
- 9780307772732
- 030777273X
- Publisher Number:
- 99986270914
- EB00596549 Recorded Books
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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