Temporary homelands
By: Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercury House
Published: 1994
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Human ecology.; Human ecology -- Religious aspects.
Description: These essays, by an exciting new voice in nature writing, combine the objectivity of a field notebook and the subjectivity of personal memoir. Tracing the subtle connections and tensions between wilderness and human culture, Deming explores our need for a place within the natural world.

Inspired by four loved places - the northeast woods of her childhood, a remote Canadian island off the eastern seaboard, southeast Alaska, and the American southwest - the essays trace one woman's journey in search of a spiritual home. Throughout her sojourns in "temporary homelands," Deming reflects on natural harmony and the discord with the natural world that our culture has created.