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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

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	Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
	by Terry Tempest Williams Sales Rank: 17033	List Price: ~~$13.95~~ $11.16 At Amazon on 10-15-2008

Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Vintage September 1, 1992 Language: English ISBN-10: 0679740244 ISBN-13: 978-0679740247 Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces *Product Review* The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to conducting the tests until women and men in Utah, Nevada, and northwestern Arizona took the matter to court in the mid-1980s, and by then thousands of Americans had fallen victim to official technology. Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. In this world of shattered eggs and drowned shorebirds, Williams reckons with the meaning of life, alternating despair and joy. *From Publishers Weekly* Utah naturalist Williams ponders the loss of her mother to cancer and the disastrous flooding of a bird refuge in a moving account of the interrelations between personal tragedy and natural history. Author tour. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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