Burn Scars: A Memoir of the Land and Its Loss Contributor(s): Prijatel, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0578658208 ISBN-13: 9780578658209 Publisher: Clementine Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecology - Science | Global Warming & Climate Change - Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement |
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
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Publisher Description: Journalist and educator Patricia Prijatel and her family built a tiny cabin in a remote Colorado mountain valley where they embraced the silent, the wild, and the beautiful-until June 2013 and the East Peak Fire. Their cabin survived, but their woodlands became a burn-scarred landscape of splintered trunks and blackened branches. After the fire, the ruin of the land and its people grew: flash floods on eroded land, invasive weeds crowding out grass and seedlings, hurricane-level winds breaking healthy trees, dangerous orphaned animals, toxic air, and stress leading to life-threatening diseases. Burn Scars: A Memoir of the Land and Its Loss follows Prijatel and her family through six years of living in a changed ecosystem. It's a story of a love of the land, of hope challenging despair, of climate grief, and the birth of a climate warrior. With searing honesty, Prijatel chronicles an unprecedented transition for America's natural forests, the life they nurture, and the people witnessing their tragic loss. Her story serves as a love song, a warning, and a glimpse of the future we'll all navigate as climate change remakes the places we've loved. It's also a call to fight for a priceless treasure we can still preserve-if we act now. |