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"Soon after her fiftieth birthday, Melissa Walker set out on a journey that many women of her generation have mapped only in their dreams. Having spent her adult life raising children and climbing the academic ladder, Walker decided to put some of the environmental theories she'd taught in...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Beginnings
- Hurry Sickness 3
- Home 14
- Rock Springs 20
- Guns, Bears, and Jumper Cables 25
- August 1993 from Home to Wilderness
- Alone in the Dark 33
- Cows in the Wilderness 40
- Home on the Range 52
- Golden 58
- Kill You, Eat You, Too 62
- Lion 69
- Holden Village 79
- Bear Poachers and Mushroom Wars 92
- Canyons and Slickrock 102
- Death in the Navajo Nation 115
- This Is Texas 121
- Settling In 135
- Shopping 141
- February 1994 Wild Florida
- A Long Road 147
- Eco Pond 156
- Mosquitoes 159
- The White Heron 161
- The Next Fifty-two Years 167
- Voices 173
- August 1994 Back to the Wild
- Free Rein 181
- Hogs in the Wilderness 185
- Black Elk 194
- Donna 201
- Paradise 218
- Anger and Alpenglow 228
- Drawn to Alaska 236
- The Inside Passage 242
- Juneau 249
- Haines 252
- Socked In, Stood Up, and Stranded 261
- You Have to Ask 265
- Reprieve 270
- The Man-Woman Thing 279
- Can't Be Sure 287
- Talking to the Thunder Gods 294.
