by Terry Tempest Williams · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679740247
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«Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place» is the memoir by Terry Tempest Williams, published by Vintage in paperback (352 pages).
In 1983 the author discovers that her mother has terminal cancer, as the rising Great Salt Lake threatens the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Williams interweaves her mother's illness with the fate of the wetland birds and the legacy of the 1950s atomic tests in a meditation on grief.
Work originally published in 1991; this tenth-anniversary edition includes a new epilogue by the author. It received the Evans Biography Award in 1991. Text in English.
For readers of memoirs and nature writing interested in family history and the link between health and environment.
