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  Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Vintage)

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  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 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... (more)
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  Leap (Vintage)

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity-based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch's medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights. Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist's prophetic vision and her own personal experiences as a Mormon... (more)
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  An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (Vintage)

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  Williams weaves her observations in the naturalist field and her personal experience--as a woman, a Westerner, and a Mormon--into a resonant manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, making clear as well that, through our disregard of this world, we have lost an essential connection to our deepest selves.
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  Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (Vintage)

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  The beloved author of Refuge , Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams writes lyrically about the desert’s power and... (more)
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  The Open Space of Democracy (New Patriotism)

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time.
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  A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  With her distinctive, impassioned voice and familiar felicity of language, Terry Tempest Williams talks about wilderness and wildlife, place and eroticism, art and literature, democracy and politics, family and heritage, Mormonism and religion, writing and creativity, and other subjects that engage her agile mind—in a set of interviews gathered and introduced by Michael Austin to represent the span of her career... (more)
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  DESERT QUARTET: An Erotic Landscape

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautifully illuminated with drawings and paintings by noted artist Mary Frank, Williams, one of the West's most intense and lyrical writers, invokes the lure and drama of the landscape. This is an incandescent meditation--in word and image--on the physical vastness and beauty of the desert and the spiritual place one woman finds for herself there.
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  Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well. “To know the oral tradition of Native American... (more)
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  The Poetry of Peace

  by Terry Tempest Williams

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  Coyote's Canyon

  by John Telford

  8 1/2 X 10 In, 96 Pp, 60 Full-Color < Photographs < This Collaboration Between Utah Natives < Is An Intimate Meditation On One of The < Earth's Most Extraordinary Landscapes. < Telford's Spectacular Color Photographs < of Utah's Desert, Canyons, Mesas, Hidden < Waterways, Araches, Anasazi Cliff < Dwellings and Vistas Are Rich With The < Reflected Light That Elevates Rock Into <... (more)
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  Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World

  by Terry Tempest Williams

  In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge , Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a... (more)