Weaving a Way Home : A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story (Hardcover)

from bethann

I honestly did not know what to expect when I began to read this book. I thought at first it was to be a book for writers, then as I began to read it, I thought it might be a book for researchers and historians, but I came to find that the audience is really much broader than that. The essays are...

from themagiciansgirl

At only 144 pages, not counting the index and bibliography, this is a tiny book. Yet its scope is fairly wide. The dust jacket and title are quaint, but the topics discussed are far from it. There were the author's explanations of the differences between wilderness, wildland and wild. Her discuss...

from angrystarlyt

I was particularly interested in reviewing this book, since I'm in an ecocriticism class and place and space designations are of particular importance in determining things such as, say, indigenous rights. I am also using different conceptions of place and space for a final seminary paper (!) whi...

from knomad

Interesting, well written and passionate but somehow insubstantial. Like pondering a beautiful object but never taking possession of it the prose is a welter of emotional resonance but by the end of the book I did not feel that I had made any progress toward anything deeper then teh emotions them...

from Fullmoonblue

I received this book through the LibraryThing 'Early Reviewers' group. While the title is Weaving a Way Home, this book's subtitle says more about the author's project: this is the story of Leslie Van Gelder's "personal journey exploring place and time". Her journey spans the globe, with portions...