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Carregando... Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook (edição: 1995)de Sid Marty (Autor)
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A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival Leaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early homesteaders and his own family. At the centre of his tale is the Marty homestead, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Sid looks back through generations of his family and celebrates the feats of wild creatures and wild westerners. The past comes alive in these pages, but so does the present, where you will meet cowboy poets, bull riders, sailplane pilots, desperate chicken farmers, curmudgeonly broncos, a homicidal cow elk, some dubious politicians and several fierce defenders of the earth. Humour and sardonic wit abound, along with abundant affection for the western earth and the people who depend on its bounties and experience its extremes of wind, frost and drought. A western classic, Leaning on the Wind is as evocative today as when it was first published in 1995. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The book has a casual, very pleasant voice, almost as though you are sitting by a fire listening to someone telling stories of their past. Other than chronologically moving to more modern times as the book progresses, there is little thread of a plot or direction to the book, the author talks about the past, plunges to the present then falls back to the past with ease.
A wistful environmental sentiment regarding life away from the big city, permeates the book. A desire for this life to continue is there too, though you know it has to change sometime soon.
A pleasant page turner and interesting glimpse into life in rural Alberta...without gory detail...a collection of fact and memory. ( )