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Calling Wild Places Home: A Memoir in Essays (Excelsior Editions)

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"This is some of the finest writing in Laura Waterman's long and distinguished career. Anyone who values the history of conservation, or the gnarled wilds of the Northeast, or the complexities of the human spirit will find nourishment in these pages." -- Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home

"In this new book, Laura Waterman tells the full story of her unique life. It began on the campus of a boy's school and took her to mountains, growing her own food, and writing. In these pages, readers find what it's like to grow up the daughter of the scholar who put the dashes back into Emily Dickinson's poetry; how Waterman coped with that brilliant father's alcoholism; her development as a groundbreaking climber; and her homesteading life for almost three decades. In these pages she reveals how she kept her strong sense of self while living with a dynamic, lovable, and often challenging man, her late husband, Guy Waterman. She examines closely her role in his suicide on Mount Lafayette in 2000." -- Christine Woodside, editor of Appalachia and the author of Libertarians on the Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books

Language: English

Pages: 322

Format: Paperback

Release: February 01, 2024

ISBN 13: 9781438496245

Calling Wild Places Home: A Memoir in Essays (Excelsior Editions)

0/5 ( ratings)

"This is some of the finest writing in Laura Waterman's long and distinguished career. Anyone who values the history of conservation, or the gnarled wilds of the Northeast, or the complexities of the human spirit will find nourishment in these pages." -- Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home

"In this new book, Laura Waterman tells the full story of her unique life. It began on the campus of a boy's school and took her to mountains, growing her own food, and writing. In these pages, readers find what it's like to grow up the daughter of the scholar who put the dashes back into Emily Dickinson's poetry; how Waterman coped with that brilliant father's alcoholism; her development as a groundbreaking climber; and her homesteading life for almost three decades. In these pages she reveals how she kept her strong sense of self while living with a dynamic, lovable, and often challenging man, her late husband, Guy Waterman. She examines closely her role in his suicide on Mount Lafayette in 2000." -- Christine Woodside, editor of Appalachia and the author of Libertarians on the Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books

Language: English

Pages: 322

Format: Paperback

Release: February 01, 2024

ISBN 13: 9781438496245

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