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Raising Wild
Michael P. Branch
其他書名
Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness
出版
Shambhala Publications
, 2017-06-06
主題
Nature / Essays
Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN
1611804590
9781611804591
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=klHNDgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
Finalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book Award
Finalist - Evans Biography and Handcart Award
An ode the extreme landscape of Nevada's Great Basin Desert—its terrain, its wildlife, and how an intrepid father and two little girls have made the wilderness their home
Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative,
Raising Wild
is an intimate exploration of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure.
Michael Branch “earned his whiskers” in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, in the wild and extreme landscape where he lives off the grid with his wife and two curious little girls. Shifting between pastoral passages on the beauty found in the desert and humorous tales of the humility of being a father,
Raising Wild
offers an intimate portrait of a landscape where mountain lions and ground squirrels can threaten in equal measure. With Branch’s distinct lyricism and wit, this exceedingly barren landscape becomes a place resonant with the rattle of snakes, the plod of pronghorn antelope, and the rustle of juniper trees, a place that is teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections. Part memoir, part homage to an environment all-to-often brushed aside as inhospitable,
Raising Wild
offers an intergenerational approach to nature, family, and the forgotten language of
wildness
.