A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1771003219 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ken Kardash said Like driving through the Prairies. I must respectfully disagree with the previous glowing reviews. Yes, this story is written in literary prose and with a novelistic attention to detail. But it is not a work of fiction, and has the laudable goal of sharing the author's journey of enlightenment regarding the Canadian settlement of the Prairies. Perhaps blinded by the perspective of her personal history in the area, she seems genuinely shocked to discover her ancestors' settlement came at the expense of the Indians who lived there first. The book eventually reveals how the functional . "Prairie Tales" according to Amazon Customer. Ms. Savage is a nature writer, and it shows in this book. Prairies are usually an acquired taste; "A Geography of Blood" will help you acquire it, as nearly as a book can. Her evocation of the "look and feel" of the landscape is masterful, and might easily inspire you to go experience the original.The tension between Aboriginals and pioneers is also powerful, albeit somewhat unsettling.. Fascinating Very well written. The author hooked me with her beautiful descriptions of exploring a prairie landscape, and I was drawn into her own growing curiosity regarding the people who once lived there and her own unearthing of various clues that drove her explorations deeper. I've heard about the "geography of blood" before, but the way she wove together anecdotes and personal stories really made history come alive (often in a heart-wrenching way). The last chapter is haunting and hopeful - a reminder that the genocide of both people and prairie is not s
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house near the Saskatchewan-Montana border, her naturalist’s instinct propels her to explore the area. She also revels in her encounters with the land’s wild inhabitants wolves, cougars and howling coyotes. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, A Geography of Blood offers both a shocking new version of Western history and an unforgettable portrait of the windswept, shining country of Cypress Hills, a holy place that helps us remember.. She takes pleasure in the Wild West setting, discovering hidden back roads, dinosaur skeletons at the discovery center, and fossils in the dust-dry hills. But as
She has done it with wonder, precision, praise and grief, adding to and extending the body of work about this extraordinary place, filling in gaps and providing another point of view. It is a heart-warming, yet incisive work that any reader will find hard to put down."—Sharon Butala, author of Perfection of the Morning. "In this book the gifted Candace Savage has written a part-memoir, part-history of the Eastend, Saskatchewan area where I spent half my life