Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness

Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness

For over a decade Michael P. Branch has been writing about life in Nevadaâ€™s Great Basin Desert with an audacity, lyricism, and wit all his own. In Raising Wild, Branch offers an intimate exploration of the western high desert. Here we find the wild and extreme land of caliche and juniper, where pronghorn antelope run and mountain lions stalk, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure, and where Branch, his wife, and their two curious little girls brazenly live among the packrats and ground squirrels, rattlesnakes and scorpions.In Branchâ€™s hands, this exceedingly barren and stark landscape becomes a place teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections that ultimately includes his family and home. It is here where one can build a ladder to the stars and find a link to the past and to the heavens; where his childrenâ€™s first garden becomes not the quaint blossoming of seed to flower and fruit but a smoke bombâ€“drenched site of futility in the face of an inhospitable desert environment; where the surprise of fire acts as a reminder all too real of the unknowable that awaits us and for which we can never fully prepare.In this inspired and hilarious exploration of natural history and parenting, Branch reveals a desert wilderness in which our ideas about nature and ourselves are challenged and transformed.
Country USA
Manufacturer Roost Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-08-23
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Roost Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-08-23
Format	Kindle eBook

Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness

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