An edition of Refuge (1991)

Refuge

An Unnatural History of Family and Place

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An edition of Refuge (1991)

Refuge

An Unnatural History of Family and Place

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  • 4 Have read

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, the Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by.

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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
336

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Subjects

Cancer, Utah, Ovaries, Patients, Health, Breast, Natural history, Great Salt Lake Region, Birds, Biography, Cancer, patients, biography, Utah, biography, Natural history, united states, Williams, terry tempest, Healthwilliams, terry tempest, Disasters, Breast neoplasms, Breast--cancer--patients, Breast--cancer--patients--utah--biography, Natural history--utah--great salt lake region, Disasters--personal narratives, Disasters--popular works, Rc280.b8 w47 1992, Wp 870 w727r 1992, 362.1/9699449/0092 b

People

Diane Dixon Tempest (1932-1987), Terry Tempest Williams

Places

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (Utah), Great Salt Lake Region, Utah
Edition Availability
Cover of: Refuge
Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place
2001, Vintage Books
in English - 2nd Vintage Books ed.
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
May 2, 2000, Pantheon
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
October 1993, Northsound Music Group Inc
Audio Cassette in English
Cover of: Refuge
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
September 1, 1992, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: Refuge
Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place
1992, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Refuge
Refuge
1992, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage ed.
Cover of: Refuge
Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place
1991, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.

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First Sentence

"I recall an experiment from school: we filled a cup with water-the surface area of the contents was only a few square inches."

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Paperback
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
8 x 5.2 x 1 inches
Weight
9.1 ounces

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OL7700101M
Internet Archive
refugeunnaturalh00will_189
ISBN 10
0679740244
ISBN 13
9780679740247
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174955
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820924

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OL3746241W

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