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RECORD NUMBER: 617 OF 805| Main Title | Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Williams, Terry Tempest, | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1992 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 25747609 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0679740244; 9780679740247 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Breast--Cancer--Patients--Utah--Biography ; Natural history--Utah--Great Salt Lake Region ; Disasters ; Breast Neoplasms ; Health ; Breast--Diseases--Biography ; Cancer--Biography ; Natural history--Great Salt Lake Region (Utah) ; Breast Neoplasms--Popular Works ; Breast Neoplasms--Personal Narratives ; Natural Disasters--Popular Works ; Natural Disasters--Personal Narratives | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Williams, Terry Tempest--Health ; Williams, Terry Tempest | |||||||||||
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| Edition | 1st Vintage Books ed. | |||||||||||
| Collation | xvi, 304 pages : map ; 21 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1991. |
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| Contents Notes | The author describes her Mormon upbringing, juxtaposing these reminiscences with discussions of the flooding of a wildlife bird sanctuary and its effect on that ecosystem, and her family's legacy of cancer. Burrowing owls : lake level: 4204.70' -- Whimbrels : lake level: 4203.25' -- Snowy egrets : lake level: 4204.05' -- Barn swallows : lake level: 4204.75' -- Peregrine falcon : lake level: 4205.40' -- Wilson's phalarope : lake level: 4206.15' -- California gulls : lake level: 4207.75' -- Ravens : lake level: 4209.10' -- Pink flamingos : lake level: 4208.00' -- Snow buntings : lake level: 4209.15' -- White pelicans : lake level: 4209.90' -- Yellow-headed blackbirds : lake level: 4209.55' -- Redheads : lake level: 4208.50' -- Killdeer : lake level: 4208.40' -- Whistling swan : lake level: 4208.35' -- Great horned owl : lake level: 4208.45' -- Roadrunner : lake level: 4210.90' -- Magpies : lake level: 4211.30' -- Long-billed curlews : lake level: 4211.65' -- Western tanager : lake level: 4211.85' -- Gray jays : lake level: 4211.40' -- Meadowlarks : lake level: 4211.00' -- Storm petrel : lake level: 4210.85' -- Greater yellowlegs : lake level: 4210.80' -- Canada geese : lake level: 4210.95' -- Bald eagles : lake level: 4211.10' -- Red-shafted flicker : lake level: 4211.15' -- Dark-eyed junco : lake level: 4211.20' -- Sanderlings : lake level: 4211.35' -- Birds-of-paradise : lake level: 4211.65' -- Pintails, mallards, and teals : lake level: 4211.85' -- Bitterns : lake level: 4210.20' -- Snowy plovers : lake level: 4209.10' -- Great blue heron : lake level: 4207.05' -- Screech owls : lake level: 4206.00' -- Avocets and stilts : lake level: 4204.70' -- The clan of one-breasted women : epilogue -- Birds associated with Great Salt Lake. |