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1 online resource |
| Summary |
"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief...to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive." |
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Electronic reproduction. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 12953 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Houston, Pam.
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Hope.
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Women ranchers -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Ranch life -- Colorado.
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Ranching -- Colorado.
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Human-animal relationships.
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Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel.
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Colorado -- Description and travel.
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Human ecology.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780393241020 |
| ISBN |
9780393285499 (electronic bk) |
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