Uplake Restless Essays of Coming and Going

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spagna, Ana Maria.

Language:

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Spagna, Ana Maria--Travel.

Spagna, Ana Maria.

TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA).

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.

Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel--Anecdotes.

Northwest, Pacific.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Summary:

"For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. You're so lucky to live there, people say. She is lucky. But she is also restless. In Uplake she takes road trips, flies to distant cities, fantasizes about other people's lives, and then returns home again to muse on rootedness, yearning, commitment, ambition, wonder, and love. These engaging, reflective essays celebrate the richness of it all: winter floods and summer fires, the roar of a chainsaw and a fiddle in the wilderness, long hikes and open-water swims, an injured bear, a lost wedding ring, and a tree in the middle of a river. Uplake reminds us to love what we have while encouraging us to still imagine what we want"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Slow connection

More than noise

Winter flood

Confessional roots

So many rings

Breathe

The fiddler on the rock

When we talk about courage

Where you'd rather be

How to brine an elk steak

Post-strayed

Away from shore

The tree in the river

The injured bear

Flight delay

Together we pause

Here in the WUI

Fire one, fire two

Pierce.

Notes:

Book.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295743233

0295743239

OCLC:

1021882168