Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place

Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulxâ€™s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

â€œBird Cloudâ€ is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on itâ€”a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen.

Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing that houseâ€”with its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor, and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the regionâ€”inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho, and Shoshone Indiansâ€”and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers.

Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, here turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2011-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780743288811

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	2011-09-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780743288811

Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place

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