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    Refuge

    An Unnatural History of Family and Place

    Author Terry Tempest Williams
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Sep 01, 1992 | 352 Pages | 9780679740247
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    This is the story of one Mormon woman's quest for solace, without and within, as a bird sanctuary near her home is flooded by the rising waters of the Great Salt Lake and as her mother contends with cancer caused by the atomic tests conducted in Utah in the 1950s.

    "Remarkable....Her demonstration of how deeply human emotional life can become intertwined with a particular landscape could not be more relevant to our lives."
    --Barry Lopez

    "Profoundly moving...one of the most significant environmental essays of our time."
    --Kansas City Star
    © Chris Noble Photography
    Terry Tempest Williams is the best-selling author of fifteen books, including the environmental classic Refuge and most recently, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks. She has received numerous awards and honors for her commitment to peace and ecological consciousness. She lives in Utah and Wyoming. View titles by Terry Tempest Williams
    "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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    This is the story of one Mormon woman's quest for solace, without and within, as a bird sanctuary near her home is flooded by the rising waters of the Great Salt Lake and as her mother contends with cancer caused by the atomic tests conducted in Utah in the 1950s.

    "Remarkable....Her demonstration of how deeply human emotional life can become intertwined with a particular landscape could not be more relevant to our lives."
    --Barry Lopez

    "Profoundly moving...one of the most significant environmental essays of our time."
    --Kansas City Star

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    © Chris Noble Photography
    Terry Tempest Williams is the best-selling author of fifteen books, including the environmental classic Refuge and most recently, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks. She has received numerous awards and honors for her commitment to peace and ecological consciousness. She lives in Utah and Wyoming. View titles by Terry Tempest Williams

    Praise

    "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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