Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
814 H8186
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814 H8186
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Linked autobiographical essays.
Description
"'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In linked essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how 'to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief ... to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.'"--Dust jacket.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Colorado -- Description and travel.
Essays.
Houston, Pam.
Human ecology.
Human-animal relationships.
Nature.
Ranch life -- Colorado.
Ranching -- Colorado.
Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Women ranchers -- United States -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Colorado -- Description and travel.
Essays.
Houston, Pam.
Human ecology.
Human-animal relationships.
Nature.
Ranch life -- Colorado.
Ranching -- Colorado.
Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Women ranchers -- United States -- Biography.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Houston, P. (2019). Deep Creek: finding hope in the high country (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Houston, Pam. 2019. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Houston, Pam. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Houston, Pam. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
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