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Author Branch, Michael P., author.

Title Raising wild : dispatches from a home in the wilderness / Michael P. Branch.

Publication Info. Boulder : Roost Books, [2016]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  979 Bra    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description xxxiii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
text txt rdacontent.
unmediated n rdamedia.
volume nc rdacarrier.
Summary For over a decade Michael P. Branch has been writing about life in Nevadas Great Basin Desert with an audacity, lyricism, and wit all his own. In Raising Wild, Branch offers an intimate exploration of the western high desert. Here we find the wild and extreme land of caliche and juniper, where pronghorn antelope run and mountain lions stalk, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure, and where Branch, his wife, and their two curious little girls brazenly live among the packrats and ground squirrels, rattlesnakes and scorpions. In Branchs hands, this exceedingly barren and stark landscape becomes a place teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections that ultimately includes his family and home. It is here where one can build a ladder to the stars and find a link to the past and to the heavens; where his childrens first garden becomes not the quaint blossoming of seed to flower and fruit but a smoke bombdrenched site of futility in the face of an inhospitable desert environment; where the surprise of fire acts as a reminder all too real of the unknowable that awaits us and for which we can never fully prepare. In this inspired and hilarious exploration of natural history and parenting, Branch reveals a desert wilderness in which our ideas about nature and ourselves are challenged and transformed. -- [from Publisher]
This book of creative nonfiction explores environmental experience in the context of parenting in western Nevadas rugged, high-elevation Great Basin Desert. Chapters combine humor, lyricism, natural history, and reflections on raising two young daughters in an extreme desert landscape. A number of chapters have appeared in magazines that feature environmental literature, including Orion, Ecotone, Slate, Hawk and Handsaw, Whole Terrain, High Country News, and Utne Reader. Various of these chapters have also received Honorable Mention for the Pushcart Prize and been recognized as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays (three chapters), The Best Creative Nonfiction, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Best American Non-required Reading (a humor anthology) -- [author's website]
Subject Branch, Michael P.
Branch, Michael P. -- Homes and haunts -- Great Basin.
Branch, Michael P. -- Family.
Wilderness living -- Great Basin.
Parenting -- Great Basin.
Sustainability -- Great Basin.
Great Basin -- Biography.
Great Basin -- Description and travel.
Great Basin -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN 9781611804591 (pbk.)
9781611803457

 
    
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