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1 online resource (1 audio file (720 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Amy Melissa Bentley. |
| Summary |
In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four-year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her pack string of listeners from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love. Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life. This is Pam's story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience. Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam's memoir, is a kind of home-coming, a family reunion for shooting stars. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Royes, Pamela.
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Royes, Skip.
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Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women -- United States -- History -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Hells Canyon (Idaho and Or.)
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| Added Author |
Jordan, Teresa, writer of foreword.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541494671 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541494679 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11983573 |
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