Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook
by Sid Marty | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0006385907 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0006385907 Global Overview for this book
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A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction
Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival
Leaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early homesteaders and his own family. At the centre of his tale is the Marty homestead, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Sid looks back through generations of his family and celebrates the feats of wild creatures and wild westerners.
The past comes alive in these pages, but so does the present, where you will meet cowboy poets, bull riders, sailplane pilots, desperate chicken farmers, curmudgeonly broncos, a homicidal cow elk, some dubious politicians and several fierce defenders of the earth. Humour and sardonic wit abound, along with abundant affection for the western earth and the people who depend on its bounties and experience its extremes of wind, frost and drought.
Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival
Leaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early homesteaders and his own family. At the centre of his tale is the Marty homestead, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Sid looks back through generations of his family and celebrates the feats of wild creatures and wild westerners.
The past comes alive in these pages, but so does the present, where you will meet cowboy poets, bull riders, sailplane pilots, desperate chicken farmers, curmudgeonly broncos, a homicidal cow elk, some dubious politicians and several fierce defenders of the earth. Humour and sardonic wit abound, along with abundant affection for the western earth and the people who depend on its bounties and experience its extremes of wind, frost and drought.
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I found this book exactly where the June 24th photo shows it was released to the wild.
I'm just getting into it; so far so good. I may not agree with all Sid's observations (i.e. I was born and raised in Calgary) but he states them eloquently.
I'll be in the United States in a few weeks for a wedding - I plan on releasing the book down there (where I believe it can do some good).
I'm just getting into it; so far so good. I may not agree with all Sid's observations (i.e. I was born and raised in Calgary) but he states them eloquently.
I'll be in the United States in a few weeks for a wedding - I plan on releasing the book down there (where I believe it can do some good).
