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Terry Tempest Williams

    Terry Tempest Williams verankert haar schrijven in het Amerikaanse Westen, diep beïnvloed door het droge landschap van haar geboorteplaats Utah. Haar werk behandelt thema's als ecologie, natuurbescherming, vrouwengezondheid en de ingewikkelde relatie tussen cultuur en natuur. Door haar kenmerkende proza verweeft Williams persoonlijke verhalen met milieuactivisme, en biedt lezers diepgaande reflecties over onze verbinding met de natuurlijke wereld. Haar stem resoneert met zowel urgentie als schoonheid, wat aanzet tot een dieper begrip van plaats en planeet.

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    In Response to Place
    Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
    • In Response to Place

      Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places

      • 160bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      The Nature Conservancy is one of the world's most foremost environmental organizations. In commemoration of its 50th anniversary, a dozen distinguished contemporary photographers were asked to submit a photograph of a place with which they have a special affinity. The volume features original unpublished images by Anne Leibovitz, Richard Misrach, Sally Mann, Wiiliam Wegman, Mary Ellen Mark, Lynn Davis, Lee Friedlander, Hope Sandrow, William Christenberry, Fazal Sheikh, Karen Halverson and Terry Edwards. Andy Grundberg a well-known critic, curator and writer provides an introduction and each photographer has written text to accompany his or her work.

      In Response to Place2001
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    • As a Mormon child, the author slept under the two outer panels of Bosch's Garden of Delights. After discovering the existence of the central panel in the Prado, she was drawn to write about her fascination with the entire triptych and the connections to her personal life, the "relationship with nature, the divide between religion and spirituality, and the question of how to preserve wilderness."--Booklist review.

      Leap2000
      3,8
    • The author describes her Mormon upbringing, juxtaposing these reminiscences with discussions of the flooding of a wildlife bird sanctuary and its effect on that ecosystem, and her family's legacy of cancer

      Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place1992
      4,2