The Solace of Open Spaces
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Erscheinungsdatum
21.03.2019
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Daunt BooksSeitenzahl
192 (Printausgabe)
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454 KB
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Englisch
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9781911547341
'I suspect that my original motive for coming here was to "lose myself" in new and unpopulated territory. Instead of producing the numbness I thought I wanted, life on the sheep ranch woke me up.'
In 1976, Gretel Ehrlich travelled from her home in New York to Wyoming to shoot a film on sheep herders. While she was away, her partner died. Although she had never planned to stay, Ehrlich found herself unable to leave. What started out as a work trip became the beginning of a new life, as well as a long and deep attachment to place.
Writing of sheep herding alone across Wyoming badlands, her experience of being struck by lightning, the true meaning of cowboys, and taking her new husband to the rodeo for their honeymoon, as well as the changing seasons, extreme winters and the wind, Ehrlich draws us into her personal relationship with this 'planet of Wyoming' she has come to call home.
As tough as it is tender,The Solace of Open Spacesis travel memoir that is embedded in place, and nature writing with an unexpected bite. It is a bold testimony to how the landscape we live in affects who we are.
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I’ll leave everything behind and become a sheep herder
,The Solace of Open Spaces’ is a collection of essays following Gretel Ehrlich’s move to Wyoming after the death of a loved one. Her essays describe her everyday adventures and struggles with the weather and harsh conditions, as she didn’t go to Wyoming merely to observe, but to work on the ranches. With poetic prose, she reveals how she found solace in nature and in the community she met along the way. This collection is inspiring and offers great insight into the lives of complex people enduring extreme weather and personal challenges far removed from most readers’ experiences (such as being struck by lightning or delivering calves while losing a wedding ring in the process). Ehrlich’s vivid descriptions of the vast landscape and the connection to nature and animals, make me long to experience it for myself.
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