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Refuge

An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Terry Tempest Williams

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English
Vintage Books
01 December 1992
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of

cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening

the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come

to gauge her life by.

One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product

of rogue technology- Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout

of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and

accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual

grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   255g
ISBN:   9780679740247
ISBN 10:   0679740244
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of fifteen books, including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, When Women Were Birds, and, most recently, The Hour of Land. Her work has been widely anthologized around the world. She lives in Castle Valley, Utah, with her husband, Brooke Williams.

Reviews for Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

There has never been a book like Refuge, an entirely original yet tragically common story, brought exquisitely to life. -San Francisco Chronicle Moving and loving... both a natural history of an ecological phenomenon [and] a Mormon family saga... A heroic book. -The Washington Post Book World A record of loss, healing grace, and the search for a human place in nature's large design. Terry Tempest Williams's courage is matched by the earnest beauty of her language and the keen compassion of her observations. -Louise Erdrich The wonderful thing about Refuge is that Terry Williams is too full of life herself, and too fascinated by all its manifestations, to write a gloomy book. There isn't a page in Refuge that doesn't whistle with the sound of wings. -Wallace Stegner Brilliantly conceived... one of the most significant environmental essays of our time. -The Kansas City Star


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