Weaving a way home : a personal journey exploring place and story / Leslie Van Gelder
- Bib ID:
- 4366581
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Van Gelder, Leslie, 1969-
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- Description:
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008
- viii, 161 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780472116423
- 0472116428
- Summary:
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"In the tradition of writers Lewis Hyde, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Joseph Meeker, Steven Mithen, Paul Shepard, Gary Snyder, and Terry Tempest Williams, Van Gelder uses both creative nonfiction narrative and evolutionary biological theory to explore complex terrain. Following Van Gelder's own travels, the book moves from the caves of the Dordogne lit only by the small beam of a flashlight, to an acacia thicket in Mozambique, to a black fly-infested bay inappropriately named Baie de Ha Ha in the inlands of Quebec, to the green line wrapped in barbed wire separating northern and southern Cyprus, to Abu Simbel's empty stone eyes in the Egyptian desert, and finally to the high road above Pelorus Sound on the rocky coasts of New Zealand. The author takes the reader to each place to create a storied landscape and explore new intellectual terrain. Van Gelder shows us that our collections of experiences, unique to us, can only be shared through the articulation of narrative.
Weaving a Way Home will appeal to those deeply interested in knowing how we forge relationships with places and how that shapes who we are."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Storied landscapes
- At the confluence of paradoxes : wilderness, wildland, wild
- The intimate wild
- Always leaving, always coming home
- At home in the alchemy of love and fear
- Lost stories, lived places : the lure of ruins
- A gifting world
- Epilogue: Inheritance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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