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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Williams, Terry Tempest
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1991. First Edition. 304pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 green cloth over tan boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near Fine. In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and 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 byproduct 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 has become a classic.
Synopsis
The author of "Leap" describes her Mormon upbringing, juxtaposing these reminiscences with discussions of the flooding of a wildlife bird sanctuary and its effect on that ecosystem, and her family's legacy of cancer.
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- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7856
- Title
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
- Author
- Williams, Terry Tempest
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
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