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Author Whitson, Audrey J. (Audrey Joan), 1957-

Title Teaching places / Audrey J. Whitson
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 178 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), color map
Series Life writing series
Life writing series.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Shield Silence -- Chapter 2 The Anatomy of Grassland -- Chapter 3 Abraham39;s Bones -- Chapter 4 Mark on the Land -- Chapter 5 Traces of Parkland58; Buffalo44; Cattle44; and War -- Chapter 6 The Layers of Forest -- Chapter 7 On Bears and the Power of Song -- Epilogue58; Giving Something Back -- Appendix58; Selected Natural Areas44; Ecological Reserves44; and Wildland Parks of Alberta -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Last Page
Summary A tale about a woman's spiritual search, how that search calls her to the land, and how the land teaches. The telling spirals, exploring loss of faith, loss of voice, and the finding of a different, broader faith and a deeper, stronger voice. Her journey takes her to many special wilderness areas across Alberta to the Canadian Shield, to mountains, prairies, boreal forest, and parkland. In the telling of her journey, she interweaves migration, evolution, family, landscape, noise, silence, and song. Remarkable for the breadth of its treatment of the spiritual journey, combining prose and poetry, the book delves in old traditions (Aboriginal, European, mystical Christian) and new
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178)
Notes Print version record
Wilfred Eggleston Award for Nonfiction (nominated), 2004
Subject Whitson, Audrey J. (Audrey Joan), 1957- -- Travel -- Alberta
SUBJECT Whitson, Audrey J. (Audrey Joan), 1957- fast
Subject Philosophy of nature.
Wilderness areas -- Alberta.
Spiritual biography -- Canada
SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
Philosophy of nature
Spiritual biography
Travel
Wilderness areas
Alberta
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780889205581
0889205582
088920425X
9780889204256