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Finding a Home in the West
出版University of Arizona Press, 1997
主題History / United States / State & Local / GeneralTravel / Essays & TraveloguesTravel / United States / West / General
ISBN08165167319780816516735
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fqjgDLCCxL8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Here, with writer Gary Holthaus, readers will reflect upon their own sense of place as they travel the lands and enter the lives of people in small towns and on ranches all over the West from Utah to Oregon to Alaska. Farmers and merchants, writers and teachers, truckers and trappers: their stories ring with hope and fear as their wide-open spaces increasingly come under siege. Here are reflections on a long journey, together with notes of a personal odyssey and a plea for preserving the West's natural beauty - its meadows and mountains, its bears and golden eagles, its antelope and wolverines. This is important, says Holthaus, because if the region is home for him and for others, too, then it is crucial for new-comers and old-timers alike not to "further foul a nest that is becoming increasingly crowded." As he finds his way and adjusts his eyes to modern realities of greed and indifference, he also comes to grips with loss and learns to balance "the harm one inevitably does" with acts of compassion and positive change.