Bibliograph

Type

Label

Raising wild, dispatches from a home in the wilderness, Michael P. Branch

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Raising wild

Oclc number

958413659

Responsibility statement

Michael P. Branch

Sub title

dispatches from a home in the wilderness

Summary

"Michael Branch built his home on a remote hilltop in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, a wild and extreme landscape where he lives with his wife and two curious little girls. Moving between pastoral passages on the beauty found in the desert and humorous tales of the humility of being a father, Raising Wild offers an intimate portrait of a landscape where mountain lions and ground squirrels can threaten in equal measure. With Branch's distinct lyricism and wit, this exceedingly barren landscape becomes a place resonant with the rattle of snakes, the clatter of pronghorn antelope, and the rustle of juniper trees, a place that is teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections. Part memoir, part homage to an environment all-to-often dismissed as inhospitable, Raising Wild presents an intergenerational approach to nature, family, and the forgotten language of wildness." -- Provided by the publisher

Table Of Contents

Pre-Amble: Learning to Walk -- Part One: Birthing -- Endlessly Rocking -- The Nature within Us -- Tracking Stories -- Ladder to the Pleiades -- Part Two: Wilding -- The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie -- The Wild within Our Walls -- Playing with the Stick -- Freebirds -- Part Three: Humbling -- Finding the Future Forest -- My Children's First Garden -- The Hills are Alive -- Fire on the Mountain -- Coda: The V.E.C.T.O.R.L.O.S.S. Project -- Reading group guide

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