Main Title |
Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place / |
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
|
Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ERAM |
RC280.B8 W47 1992 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
09/28/2007 |
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Edition |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
Collation |
xvi, 304 pages : map ; 21 cm |
Notes |
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1991. |
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. |
Place Published |
New York : |
PUB Date Free Form |
1992. |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
92050102 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20070924191300 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
01604cam 2200445 a 45020 |