Title: Teaching places /
Authors: Whitson, Audrey J. 1957-
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Whitson, Audrey J. Travel Alberta.; Whitson, Audrey J. Voyages Alberta.; Philosophy of nature.; Wilderness areas Alberta; Spiritual biography Canada.; Philosophie de la nature.; Réserves de la vie sauvage Alberta.; Biographies spirituelles Canada.
Abstract: "[This book] is a tale about a woman's spiritual search, how that search calls her to the land and how the land teaches. The telling spirals, exploring loss of faith, loss of voice, and the finding of a different, broader faith and a deeper, stronger voice. Her journey takes her to many special wilderness areas across Alberta -- from the edge of the Canadian Shield to mountains, prairies, boreal forest, and parkland. In the telling of her journey, she interweaves migration, evolution, family, landscape, noise, silence, and song."--Back cover.
Contents: 1. Shield silence -- 2. The anatomy of grassland -- 3. Abraham's bones -- 4. Mark on the land -- 5. Traces of parkland : buffalo, cattle, and war -- 6. The layers of forest -- 7. On bears and the power of song -- Epilogue. Giving something back