| Light in the Trees Contributor(s): Folkins, Gail (Author), Wilkinson, Andy (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0896729516 ISBN-13: 9780896729513 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015028621 |
| Series: Voice in the American West |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (0.80 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator's travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest. Sasquatch myths and serial killer realities, a runaway Appaloosa, and turbulent volcanoes beneath serene mountaintops help chronicle a coming of age for both a narrator and a place. Later, a move to the Southwest expands Folkins's view of the West. From this new perspective paired with frequent journeys to the Northwest, she explores challenges of the natural world, from wildlife habitat and water quality to a changeable climate and wildfires, navigating new versions of home and self along the way. |