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ISBN
9781611803457
Book Title
Raising Wild : Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness
Publisher
Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Item Length
8.7 in
Publication Year
2016
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
Michael P. Branch
Genre
Nature, Family & Relationships, Travel, Science, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts, Parenting / General, Personal Memoirs, General, Ecology, Essays & Travelogues, Essays
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Publisher
Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1611803454
ISBN-13
9781611803457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219191397

Product Key Features

Book Title
Raising Wild : Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts, Parenting / General, Personal Memoirs, General, Ecology, Essays & Travelogues, Essays
Genre
Nature, Family & Relationships, Travel, Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Michael P. Branch
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-000871
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Michael Branch has been an essential figure in western letters for years. Now, in  Raising Wild , he brings us an intimate look into one remarkable family's life situated deeply in their place. Whether writing of antelope or antelope squirrels, scorpions or daughters, Branch sweeps smoothly between downright mordant humor and stilling insight, through depths of fresh thought all along the way. His essays mean so much, I could enjoy reading them even upside down, or back to front."-Robert Michael Pyle, author of  Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place, "Michael Branch has been an essential figure in western letters for years. Now, in  Raising Wild , he brings us an intimate look into one remarkable family's life situated deeply in their place. Whether writing of antelope or antelope squirrels, scorpions or daughters, Branch sweeps smoothly between downright mordant humor and stilling insight, through depths of fresh thought all along the way. His essays mean so much, I could enjoy reading them even upside down, or back to front."--Robert Michael Pyle, author of  Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place "This book is not exactly about wild landscapes but the life of a house-holding family placed out there with two verge-of-puberty daughters. It is about our daily reality, not our fantasy possibilities, and who knows today what these girls will have to say later? So it is remarkably interesting, lively, non-theoretical, and hopeful. The wild might be wildfire or bushy-tailed woodrats under the floor--not just to live with but to know them. Michael Branch's book points forward, not back."--Gary Snyder "With Raising Wild , Michael Branch turns his sharp mind and big heart to the subject of domestic wildness--life with his wife and daughters in the high desert. Reading Branch's prose is like attending a great and raucous party. A party held around a campfire in a secret corner of the wilderness full of intense talk, laughs, liquor, and deep insights. That the kids are invited this time makes it even better.  A profound and moving book that just might change some lives."--David Gessner, author of All the Wild that Remains "At last! A home for Michael Branch's joyous dispatches from the high desert, which I have long followed with delight. If you're unfamiliar with Branch, prepare for your first encounter with a singular sensibility, bracing yet affable. In part a memoir of building a unique home in an extraordinary place, in part a treatise on cultivating, protecting, and loving the wild, and each other therein, Raising Wild is a wholly defiant, tender book bristling with spirit, intelligence, and mountains of laughs." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus "I have long considered Michael Branch one of the true visionaries of western American literature--and here is further proof.  This beautiful, often raucous account of fatherhood and (wild) faith takes us even deeper into his remarkable kinship with northwestern Nevada. A place where, through the "daily practices of love, humility, and humor," we can all learn to be at home in this world."--John T. Price, author of Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father      , "Michael Branch has been an essential figure in western letters for years. Now, in  Raising Wild , he brings us an intimate look into one remarkable family's life situated deeply in their place. Whether writing of antelope or antelope squirrels, scorpions or daughters, Branch sweeps smoothly between downright mordant humor and stilling insight, through depths of fresh thought all along the way. His essays mean so much, I could enjoy reading them even upside down, or back to front."--Robert Michael Pyle, author of  Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place "This book is not exactly about wild landscapes but the life of a house-holding family placed out there with two verge-of-puberty daughters. It is about our daily reality, not our fantasy possibilities, and who knows today what these girls will have to say later? So it is remarkably interesting, lively, non-theoretical, and hopeful. The wild might be wildfire or bushy-tailed woodrats under the floor--not just to live with but to know them. Michael Branch's book points forward, not back."--Gary Snyder "With Raising Wild , Michael Branch turns his sharp mind and big heart to the subject of domestic wildness--life with his wife and daughters in the high desert. Reading Branch's prose is like attending a great and raucous party. A party held around a campfire in a secret corner of the wilderness full of intense talk, laughs, liquor, and deep insights. That the kids are invited this time makes it even better.  A profound and moving book that just might change some lives."--David Gessner, author of All the Wild that Remains "At last! A home for Michael Branch's joyous dispatches from the high desert, which I have long followed with delight. If you're unfamiliar with Branch, prepare for your first encounter with a singular sensibility, bracing yet affable. In part a memoir of building a unique home in an extraordinary place, in part a treatise on cultivating, protecting, and loving the wild, and each other therein, Raising Wild is a wholly defiant, tender book bristling with spirit, intelligence, and mountains of laughs." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus "I have long considered Michael Branch one of the true visionaries of western American literature--and here is further proof.  This beautiful, often raucous account of fatherhood and (wild) faith takes us even deeper into his remarkable kinship with northwestern Nevada. A place where, through the "daily practices of love, humility, and humor," we can all learn to be at home in this world."--John T. Price, author of Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father       "Not since Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder has there been such a lively and evocative account of intergenerational experiences in nature. Michael Branch's Raising Wild offers breathtaking lyricism, sage wisdom, and big belly laughs in equal measure. Most importantly, this collection is a testament to the value of marrying memory and place--especially while in the company of those we love."--Kathryn Miles, author of Adventures with Ari , All Standing , and Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
Dewey Decimal
979.034092
Synopsis
2017 Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award 2017 Finalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book Award 2017 Finalist - Evans Biography and Handcart Award Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration of Nevada's Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure. Michael Branch "earned his whiskers" in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, in the wild and extreme landscape where he lives off the grid with his wife and two curious little girls. Shifting between pastoral passages on the beauty found in the desert and humorous tales of the humility of being a father, Raising Wild offers an intimate portrait of a landscape where mountain lions and ground squirrels can threaten in equal measure. With Branch's distinct lyricism and wit, this exceedingly barren landscape becomes a place resonant with the rattle of snakes, the plod of pronghorn antelope, and the rustle of juniper trees, a place that is teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections. Part memoir, part homage to an environment all-to-often brushed aside as inhospitable, Raising Wild offers an intergenerational approach to nature, family, and the forgotten language of wildness ., Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration of Nevada's Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure. Within this remote, high desert landscape sits the home of Michael Branch, where he, his wife, and their two curious little girls brazenly live among the packrats and ground squirrels, rattlesnakes and scorpions. In Branch'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 in this desert setting where, in building a ladder to the stars, one can find a connection to the past and to the heavens; where his children's first garden becomes not the quaint blossoming of seed to flower and fruit but a smoke bomb-drenched exhibit of futility in the face of the 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 exhilarating, lyrical, and humorous exploration of natural history, Branch reveals a desert wilderness in which our ideas about nature and ourselves are challenged and transformed.
LC Classification Number
F789.B73 2016

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