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Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

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Refuge

Author
Terry Tempest Williams
Narrator
Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Publish Date
25 July 2023
Run Time
8 hours 50 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Biography: general, Coping with death and bereavement, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Memoirs, Popular medicine and health, Coping with cancer, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, Relationships and families: advice and issues
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In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

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Author
Terry Tempest Williams
Narrator
Terry Tempest Williams
Duration
8 hours 50 minutes
Release Date
25 July 2023
ISBN
9781541437760
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Genre
Biography: general, Coping with death and bereavement, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Memoirs, Popular medicine and health, Coping with cancer, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, Relationships and families: advice and issues

Synopsis

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

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