Refuge

An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Health, Ailments & Diseases, Cancer, Science & Nature, Nature, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Terry Tempest Williams ISBN: 9780307772732
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: March 18, 2015
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
ISBN: 9780307772732
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: March 18, 2015
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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 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 has become a classic.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 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 has become a classic.

More books from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Cover of the book Life Estates by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book The Peppermint Tea Chronicles by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book Measuring the World by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book A Country Road, A Tree by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book The Africans by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book When We Were Romans by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book The Wizard of West Orange by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book Royal Highness by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book Meditations from the Mat by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book The Eternal Nazi by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book My First Movie: Take Two by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book Girl in the Dark by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book Oscar and Lucinda by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book The Vorrh by Terry Tempest Williams
Cover of the book Toussaint Louverture by Terry Tempest Williams
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy