Home Waters

Author : John N. Maclean
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780062944610

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Home Waters by John N. Maclean Pdf

“Beautiful. ... A lyrical companion to his father’s classic, A River Runs through It, chronicling their family’s history and bond with Montana’s Blackfoot River.” —Washington Post A "poetic" and "captivating" (Publishers Weekly) memoir about the power of place to shape generations, Home Waters is John N. Maclean's remarkable chronicle of his family's century-long love affair with Montana's majestic Blackfoot River, the setting for his father's classic novella, A River Runs through It. Maclean returns annually to the simple family cabin that his grandfather built by hand, still in search of the trout of a lifetime. When he hooks it at last, decades of longing promise to be fulfilled, inspiring John, reporter and author, to finally write the story he was born to tell. A book that will resonate with everyone who feels deeply rooted to a landscape, Home Waters is a portrait of a family who claimed a river, from one generation to the next, of how this family came of age in the 20th century and later as they scattered across the country, faced tragedy and success, yet were always drawn back to the waters that bound them together. Here are the true stories behind the beloved characters fictionalized in A River Runs through It, including the Reverend Maclean, the patriarch who introduced the family to fishing; Norman, who balanced a life divided between literature and the tug of the rugged West; and tragic yet luminous Paul (played by Brad Pitt in Robert Redford’s film adaptation), whose mysterious death has haunted the family and led John to investigate his uncle’s murder and reveal new details in these pages. A universal story about nature, family, and the art of fly fishing, Maclean’s memoir beautifully captures the inextricable ways our personal histories are linked to the places we come from—our home waters. Featuring twelve wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates and a map of the Blackfoot River region.

Author : David B. Williams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748610

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Homewaters by David B. Williams Pdf

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region’s ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today’s ferry system. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound’s ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home. A Michael J. Repass Book

Author : Nancy Pagh
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552380284

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At Home Afloat by Nancy Pagh Pdf

Considering accounts written by Northwest Coast marine tourists between 1861 and 1990, Nancy Pagh examines the ways that gender influences the roles women play at sea, the spaces they occupy on boats, and the language they use to describe their experiences, their natural surroundings, and their contact with Native peoples. Unique features of this book include its interdisciplinary nature and its combination of scholarly information and a style that general readers will appreciate. The text is engaging but also serves to make fresh and relevant links between scholarship in diverse areas of inquiry; for example, Western Canadian and American history, feminist geography, post-colonial theory, and women and environments.

Author : Joseph Monninger
Publisher : Crown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780767905152

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Home Waters by Joseph Monninger Pdf

Joseph Monninger thought the worst when Nellie, his loyal golden retriever, became ill. Home Waters is the story of the road trip that Monninger decided to embark on with Nellie, traveling out West to revisit their favorite mountain haunts and trout streams. Expecting this to be their final excursion together, Monninger maps a course that includes the Wind River Range in Wyoming, the Bighorn River in Montana, and Henry Ford's River in Idaho. Painting a loving portrait of his canine companion and the joys of fishing, Monninger recalls the life events that Nellie has seen him through and describes how, oblivious to her presumed health problems, Nellie contentedly watches bison at Yellowstone, chases a coyote, and falls head over heels for a Chesapeake retriever named Chunky. Combining the charm of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley with the unsentimental storytelling of A River Runs Through It, Home Waters is a delightful story of a beautiful friendship--one that is, in the end, renewed rather than ended.

Author : Tawni Waters
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492645443

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The Long Ride Home by Tawni Waters Pdf

After the loss of her mother, Harley can barely handle her grief. But the start of summer marks new beginnings, and Harley leaves for a cross-country road trip to scatter her mother's ashes with Dean, her friend (with benefits). The two ride by motorcycle, reconnecting with people who knew her mother along the way. But it's not long before Harley realizes she's pregnant...with Dean's child. And as Harley learns that her mother faced similar choices during her own pregnancy, Harley must come to terms with her mother's past to make a difficult decision about her own future.

Author : Elizabeth Devlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798685401403

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Home Waters by Elizabeth Devlin Pdf

On windswept Narragansett Bay, an oceanographer and his personal nemesis--linked by two little girls--fight ecological disaster and their own demons. He has a deep hole in his heart ... can his fight to protect the ocean fill it? World-famous oceanographer Becket Fallon plunged himself into work after his son's death. But just when he discovers toxic algae threatens the entire East Coast, his sharp tongue costs him his research funding. And as he struggles to find a solution, the three-year-old grandchildren he's felt duty-bound to avoid show up on his doorstep... in the arms of their attractive step-aunt Lainey Carmichael. When he refuses to take in the orphaned twins, Lainey makes him an irresistible offer: Let them stay for the summer, and she'll secure fresh sponsors. Stunned when she succeeds, he loses himself in the environmental battle. He's terrified he'll only repeat past mistakes if he lets his new houseguests wriggle their way into his life and heart. Can Becket save the ocean he loves ... and the family he never felt he deserved? If you like tormented heroes, romantic entanglements, and stories of redemption, scroll up and BUY NOW.

Author : George B Handley
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1607810239

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Home Waters by George B Handley Pdf

People who flyfish know that a favorite river bend, a secluded spot in moving waters, can feel like home—a place you know intimately and intuitively. In prose that reads like the flowing current of a river, scholar and essayist George Handley blends nature writing, local history, theology, environmental history, and personal memoir in his new book Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River. Handley’s meditations on the local Provo River watershed present the argument that a sense of place requires more than a strong sense of history and belonging, it requires awareness and commitment. Handley traces a history of settlement along the Provo that has profoundly transformed the landscape and yet neglected its Native American and environmental legacies. As a descendent of one of the first pioneers to irrigate the area, and as a witness to the loss of orchards, open space, and an eroded environmental ethic, Handley weaves his own personal and family history into the landscape to argue for sustainable belonging. In avoiding the exclusionist and environmentally harmful attitudes that come with the territorial claims to a homeland, the flyfishing term, “home waters,” is offered as an alternative, a kind of belonging that is informed by deference to others, to the mysteries of deep time, and to a fragile dependence on water. While it has sometimes been mistakenly assumed that the Mormon faith is inimical to good environmental stewardship, Handley explores the faith’s openness to science, its recognition of the holiness of the creation, and its call for an ethical engagement with nature. A metaphysical approach to the physical world is offered as an antidote to the suicidal impulses of modern society and our persistent ambivalence about the facts of our biology and earthly condition. Home Waters contributes a perspective from within the Mormon religious experience to the tradition of such Western writers as Wallace Stegner, Terry Tempest Williams, Steven Trimble, and Amy Irvine. Winner of the Mormon Letters Award for Memoir.

Author : Gary Soucie
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fly fishing
ISBN : CORNELL:31924073875720

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Home Waters by Gary Soucie Pdf

A host of writers take readers to their favorite fishing spots in a captivating collection of 55 pieces, many written especially for this book. Reflecting every nuance of the fly-fishing experience, culled from more than 100 years of writing, this is the book fly-fishers will want to come home to.

Author : Lynda Mapes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : 1680513265

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Orca by Lynda Mapes Pdf

The history--and future--of one of the sea's greatest mammals

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Fly fishing
ISBN : 188262615X

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Home Waters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226472232

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A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman MacLean Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation

Author : Gordon Sullivan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780881506792

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Saving Homewaters by Gordon Sullivan Pdf

A remarkable account of Montana's efforts to save its trout streams and rivers from pollution and neglect. The fabled nature of Montana's streams cannot be taken for granted. In the late 1800s many of Montana's rivers were filled with pollution and dying fish. Certain key conservation and restoration policies between 1900 and 1940 set the stage for the waters that now draw visitors and anglers from around the world. Yet, many of those same rivers and streams are once again facing devastating environmental threats. Montana is a paradigm for conservation issues that are faced around the nation and around the world. Yet, no one has ever managed to tell the story of the policies and unique policy makers who made this all possible. And, no one has therefore been able to turn back to that history as a source of direction for dealing with the ongoing environmental challenges facing streams everywhere.

Author : Joanne Robertson
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781772602302

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The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson Pdf

The story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine-ba Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet. She, along with other women, men, and youth, have walked around all the Great Lakes from the four salt waters, or oceans, to Lake Superior. The walks are full of challenges, and by her example Josephine-ba invites us all to take up our responsibility to protect our water, the giver of life, and to protect our planet for all generations.

Author : Laura Crawford
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780976882343

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In Arctic Waters by Laura Crawford Pdf

In an adaptation of the Mother Goose poem "This Is the House that Jack Built," animals of the Arctic--including an Inuit hunter--are introduced through rhythmic stanzas and colorful art.

Author : Scott Mansfield
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781615191123

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Strong Waters: A Simple Guide to Making Beer, Wine, Cider and Other Spirited Beverages at Home by Scott Mansfield Pdf

Discover the Many Rewards of Homemade Spirits—Unique, Flavorful, Economical and Surprisingly Easy to Make! Today’s renewed interest in making wine and beer at home amounts to nothing less than a renaissance. No matter why you want to join the new generation of homebrewers—to complement your cooking, to save money, or simply for a truly rewarding hobby—Strong Waters will tell you how. In this do-it-yourself guide, Scott Mansfield makes a grand tradition accessible for today’s enthusiasts. Beginners will welcome his tips for getting started inexpensively with everyday materials, and experienced hobbyists will be inspired by recipes for longtime favorites and forgotten delights, including: Limoncello, the perfect aperitif to conclude an Italian dinner Perry, apple cider’s sweeter cousin, made from pears Jalapeno Wine, a healthy drink that doubles as a marinade Rhodomel, an ancient Grecian mead flavored with roses and honey Spruce Beer, a North American classic since colonial times Worried that making your own spirits is complicated? Don’t be! Strong Waters covers everything from the basics of bottling to the science of sweetening. It’s surprisingly easy, and as eight pages of color photos illustrate, the results are tantalizing. Cheers!