false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512851m/12988.jpg 820924 2 The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of <i>Refuge</i> resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to conducting the tests until women and men in Utah, Nevada, and northwestern Arizona took the matter to court in the mid-1980s, and by then thousands of Americans had fallen victim to official technology. Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. In this world of shattered eggs and drowned shorebirds, Williams reckons with the meaning of life, alternating despair and joy. 806761 1 9 1992 Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place total:1363|5:576|4:469|3:220|2:63|1:35| 1363 5577 1713 264 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 4 3 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 18:16:23 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 22 03:52:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 3 4 false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu May 17 08:01:17 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 08:02:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 1 false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 15:15:54 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 13:11:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 1 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Wed Jul 18 08:04:05 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 08:10:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 0 false Wed Dec 17 23:19:36 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 23:57:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 4 1 false Fri Jul 06 10:19:51 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 10:22:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 1 false Fri Jan 11 08:13:22 -0800 2008 Thu May 17 10:46:05 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 10:51:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 4 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sat Sep 29 13:39:22 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 16:36:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 1 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Sep 11 10:32:09 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 05:55:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 3 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 15:06:50 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 16:25:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12988 067940516X 9780679405160 51 11 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512851m/12988.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12988.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Fri Jan 30 04:58:58 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 05:10:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 4 0 false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 11:29:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 09:45:39 -0700 2009
I like Terry.

"What is it about the relationship of a mother that can heal or hurt us?"
This was a very maternal book; Terry's mother, her mother's mother, her ambiv...more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 22:19:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 22:33:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 3 1 false Fri Aug 22 13:35:05 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 13:36:26 -0700 2008
It is beautifully written, and I really enjoyed reading it, although I can't fully remember what it is about now. Environmentalism? Cancer? Utah?]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 18:51:12 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 18:58:14 -0700 2009
Thoughts: Too often, nature and wildlife are neglected in literature, but my knowledge of birds is lacking, so many times I didn't really know what birds Williams...more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 0 true Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 01 19:12:59 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:19:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 15:58:43 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 16:02:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1992 Tue May 19 11:31:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 13:21:39 -0700 2009 Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place hit bookstores for the first time than it became fodder for discussion and analysis at academic conferences as well as a staple--even the seminal text--for college courses on literature and th...more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 19:30:45 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 19:33:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 820924 0679740244 9780679740247 1310 253 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178676212m/820924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820924.Refuge_An_Unnatural_History_of_Family_and_Place 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Sat Aug 29 07:18:37 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 07:18:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12988