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A northern front : new and selected essays / John Hildebrand.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, ©2005.Description: xii, 207 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781681340685
  • 1681340682
Subject(s):
Contents:
Coming home -- A northern front -- The appraisal -- Wading the big two-hearted -- Snow on the mountains -- Touching bottom -- Beyond whales -- Fables -- Fences -- Exile's song -- Dogs playing poker -- Deer in the tree -- Wolf at the door -- Wolf redux -- Looking for home -- On being lost -- In a far country.
Review: "In places as remote as Alaska's North Slope and as familiar as a midwestern family farm there are tensions that exist between nature and the people who define a given land as home. In seventeen essays, award-winning writer and naturalist John Hildebrand takes a clear-eyed look at how these forces move and change the people and the environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 304.2 H642 Available 33111008832897
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Hildebrand writes of landscapes in dispute: Native Alaskan groups are pitted against each other over oil development, Hmong emigrants jostle locals in a public hunting ground, farmers battle a formidable company town and city hall. Nature itself is also in flux as timber wolves and sandhill cranes reclaim lost ground and a marine biologist gauges the effect of an invading species on previously undisturbed areas.



A Northern Front reflects the day-by-day disappearance of wild places and the ever-changing face of the American landscape. Hildebrand's characters are unforgettable, and his stories gracefully capture the spirit of all people who care deeply about the land.

Coming home -- A northern front -- The appraisal -- Wading the big two-hearted -- Snow on the mountains -- Touching bottom -- Beyond whales -- Fables -- Fences -- Exile's song -- Dogs playing poker -- Deer in the tree -- Wolf at the door -- Wolf redux -- Looking for home -- On being lost -- In a far country.

"In places as remote as Alaska's North Slope and as familiar as a midwestern family farm there are tensions that exist between nature and the people who define a given land as home. In seventeen essays, award-winning writer and naturalist John Hildebrand takes a clear-eyed look at how these forces move and change the people and the environment."--BOOK JACKET.

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