A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape - Couverture rigide

Savage, Candace

 
9781553652342: A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
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ISBN 10 : 1553652347 ISBN 13 : 9781553652342
Editeur : Greystone Books,Canada, 2012

Synopsis

*Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land-three coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark; a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minutes' walk from town. But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality-a story of cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past--and finds that she must reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and imbued with Savage's passion for this place, A Geography of Blood offers both a shocking new version of plains history and an unforgettable portrait of the windswept, shining country of the Cypress Hills.

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À propos de l'auteur

Candace Savage is the author of numerous internationally acclaimed books on subjects ranging from natural history and science to popular culture. She is the author of the best-selling natural history titles Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies and Jays and Prairie: A Natural History, for which she won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and a Gold Medal from ForeWord Magazine in 2004. She is also a frequent contributor to numerous periodicals, including Canadian Geographic. She lives in Saskatoon, SK.

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Éditeur
Greystone Books,Canada
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1553652347
ISBN 13 
9781553652342
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781771003216: A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1771003219 ISBN 13 :  9781771003216
Editeur : Greystone Books,Canada, 2013
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