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Weaving a Way Home : a Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story by Van Gelder, Leslie, 1969- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Weaving a Way Home : a Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story about?
<p>An inquiry into how we engage with the world, and how solutions to environmental challenges can be found in the heart of our emotional relationships with places</p> <p>"No one with a working heart will fail to be moved by Van Gelder. With passion and intelligence, she explores the way we story places and places story all life."<br> —-Patrick Curry, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Kent, and author of <i>Ecological Ethics: An Introduction and Defending Middle-Earth</i></p> <p>"With grace and passion Leslie Van Gelder weaves together stories of her own encounters with an amazing variety of places—-riverside meadows of Oxford, racially sundered Cyprus, fly-tormented Canadian muskeg, caves stroked by Paleolithic fingertips, derelict Coney Island, grasslands through which lion cubs follow the black tip of their mother’s tail—-to show us how Place and Story are the warp and weft of our being as earth-dwellers."<br> —-Tim Robinson, Folding Landscapes, and author of <i>Connemara: Listening to the Wind</i></p> <p>"Travel narrative, memoir, literary criticism, and anthropology fuse in this highly original and moving exploration of place and home."<br> —-John Elder, author of <
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- Author
- Van Gelder, Leslie, 1969-
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780472116423
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Fiction, Sociology
- Rating
- 2.45 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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