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Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life
Nancy Lord
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Description for Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life
Hardback. A collection of essays that explore Alaska, the environment, and the interaction between humans and nature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America “big and wild enough to hold the intact landscapes and the dreams that are so absent today from almost everywhere else.” In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural world. Vast ... Read more
For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America “big and wild enough to hold the intact landscapes and the dreams that are so absent today from almost everywhere else.” In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographic borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural world. Vast ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803225152
SKU
V9780803225152
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About Nancy Lord
Nancy Lord is a former Alaska Writer Laureate and a Pushcart Prize–winning author. Her previous acclaimed books include Fishcamp, Green Alaska, The Man Who Swam with Beavers, and Beluga Days.
Reviews for Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life
“[Nancy Lord] brings an impressive awareness to this collection of essays . . . . The author patiently waits for the landscape and its many stories to reveal themselves to her. Lord is also politically adept and sensitive. . . . She closes with an ample display of her writing chops, allowing readers to take her measure as a well-rounded ... Read more